History from New Zealand's early colonial days is traversed in this "triple biography." Prize-winning investigative journalist and now retired newspaper editor, Geoff Adams. explores three intertwined characters: Judge Dudley Ward, his wife Anne, and his mistress Thorpe Talbot. All three were celebrities in the 19th century. After two decades of research in New Zealand, England and Australia, the author has located many facts about this fascinating but at present largely forgotten trio. Dudley came from a rich and powerful English family, progressing from Rugby School, Oxford and the Inner...