The Mayne Inheritance
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The Mayne Inheritance

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The Mayne Inheritance

About this book

Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, The Mayne Inheritance unfolds like a gothic thriller. Was it the murder victim's money that founded patriarch Patrick Mayne's Queen Street business empire? Were the whispered accusations of murder and genetic madness true? For 150 years, scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands. 'A gothic tale of murder, madness and scandal across the generations … Mad nuns, suspicious doctors, drownings, murder as foul as fevered imaginations can devise.' - Rosemary Sorensen, The Courier-Mail 'This real-life thriller has been selling and selling … and has rarely left the bestseller lists.' - Matt Condon, Sun Herald

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface
  6. Mayne Family Chart
  7. Chapter 1: A Profitable Murder
  8. Chapter 2: Ireland to Australia
  9. Chapter 3: Law Courts & Land Deals
  10. Chapter 4: Consolidating an Empire
  11. Chapter 5: In and Out of Council
  12. Chapter 6: Life in Queen Street 1860–1865
  13. Chapter 7: Crisis After Crisis
  14. Chapter 8: Out of the Ashes
  15. Chapter 9: A Family Ostracised
  16. Chapter 10: The Tobita Murder and Its Aftermath
  17. Chapter 11: The Burden of Inheritance
  18. Chapter 12: Maynes and the University of Queensland
  19. Epilogue
  20. Sources
  21. Copyright