title: The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll
author:  Paul Spicer 
description: Please note: the ebook edition does not include photos that originally appeared in the printed book.<br /><br />The 1941 fatal shooting of British earl Joss Erroll in Kenya made headlines worldwide (and was the subject of the book and movie White Mischief). A cuckolded husband was acquitted, and now Kenyan-born former oil executive Spicer intriguingly fingers his late mothers friend, Countess Alice de Janz, Josss discarded mistress. Alices complicated and violent love life was possibly attributable to bipolar disorder and to abandonment by her father, a self-made American millionaire, when Alice was 13. Alice married a French count, Frdric de Janz, and to escape the stuffy confines of French society, the couple spent much of their time in Kenya. There Alice had two love affairs that, according to Spicer, goaded Alice to violence: she made a botched murder-suicide attempt in 1927 when English aristocrat Raymund de Trafford rejected her, yet they married in 1932 (Alice had already left her husband). Alice had also begun a two-decade-long liaison with Joss. Though Joss had many enemies, Spicer posits that Alice killed Joss, and months later, at age 42, committed suicide, hoping they would be reunited in the afterlife. The authors depiction of the unstable heiress and her milieu of wealthy expatriates cavorting in the Kenyan highlands is engrossing. 8 pages of b&amp;w photos. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Anna Campbell
  
  Tempt the Devil
  
  I’d like to dedicate this book  
  to a remarkable woman  
  who was a huge influence on me  
  as I grew up.  
  Aunty Joan, I still miss you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  Chapter 1  
  Across the packed, noisy salon, Julian Southwood, Earl of Erith,…
  
  Chapter 2  
  Even as Olivia spoke the words to place her in…
  
  Chapter 3  
  Olivia rounded the turn in the elaborately carved staircase and…
  
  Chapter 4  
  Erith stared down at a woman desirable beyond the dreams…
  
  Chapter 5  
  In resigned silence, Olivia waited for Lord Erith to push…
  
  Chapter 6  
  The next evening, Olivia sat at the piano, picking her…
  
  Chapter 7  
  Do nothing? What breed of man was this?
  
  Chapter 8  
  Lord Erith sprawled at Olivia’s side without speaking, his head…
  
  Chapter 9  
  All Erith’s certainties dissolved in a shocked instant. A taste…
  
  Chapter 10  
  As Erith flung the uncompromising words at her, Olivia flinched…
  
  Chapter 11  
  “What on earth ar