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Michael Harris, author of Justice Denied (1986) and Unholy Orders (1990), has turned his considerable talent to writing about unholy matrimony. A multi - millionaire from London, Ontario, Helmuth Buxbaum was convicted of having hired assassins to kill his wife, Hanna, by the side of a highway on July 5, 1984.
The Prodigal Husband is the fourth book to be written about this case and by far the most comprehensive. Harris paints sympathetic portraits of all the players and maintains an objective distance throughout the telling of this tawdry tale. Only in the final chapter does he really...