Caribbean Shadows: The Nassau Murder: The Unsolved Killing of Sir Harry Oakes and the Mystery That Still Divides History.

A millionaire murdered. A governor under scrutiny. A verdict that solved nothing.

On a warm July morning in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes—one of the wealthiest men in the British Empire—was found brutally murdered in his Nassau mansion.

Within days, suspicion focused on his son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny.

The trial that followed gripped the world.

Yet the verdict left one question unanswered:

Who really killed Sir Harry Oakes?

Drawing upon court records, historical research and modern investigative principles, Bill Stewart reconstructs one of the twentieth century’s most enduring unsolved murders.

Rather than chasing sensational theories, Caribbean Shadows examines the evidence as detectives, historians and forensic specialists see it today.

Inside you’ll discover:

• the final days of Sir Harry Oakes

• the extraordinary crime scene

• the controversial fingerprint evidence

• the role of the Duke of Windsor

• the dramatic murder trial

• the competing theories

• how modern forensic science would investigate the case today

Written in the measured style that has become the hallmark of the Bill Stewart Investigates series, this is a careful re-examination of a mystery that continues to challenge historians more than eighty years later.

Sometimes the greatest mystery is not who was accused.

It is why the truth remains hidden.