By David Dickinson
In February 1902, a banquet is held on the motels of courtroom, in which senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses and dies. whilst a moment barrister is shot useless presently after, Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to behavior a discreet research. His inquiries take him to the center of felony London, the place the wills of the lifeless can exhibit the crimes of the residing, and he discovers a marriage, possible damaged by means of the shortcoming of youngsters. the path leads on, first to a grand state residence, mysteriously boarded up, its prior sealed inside of, then to a becoming record of suspects together with a jealous spouse, a mistress frightened of being jilted, and a cuckolded husband who writes books approximately poisons. Powerscourt finally unearths that he too is now status within the direction of threat.
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26 The Illuminati Using the methods of earlier secret societies, Weishaupt, through his organizing ability, was able to make the Illuminati one of the most effective instruments of evil that has ever been uncovered. Using the philosophy that "the end justifies the means," his methods became a model for world revolution. Eventually, the Order became suspect by the government of Bavaria, resulting in an investigation by a Bavarian Court of Inquiry in 1783. An event that led to exposure of the subversive nature of the Order was the untimely death of one of its members, an evangelist preacher named Lanze, who, while on a mission to Silesia, was struck down by lightning.
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