The Changretta VendettaĪt Christmas in 1925, necessity forced the Shelby family back together. Tommy lived between a city hotel and his country pile, isolated from, and mistrusted by them all. After her experience in the noose, Polly was haunted by the spirits of the dead, and sank into a medicated, alcoholic stupor. Michael returned to work for the Shelby Company but John and Arthur bought country houses and tried (unhappily) to live quiet lives. After their series three arrests, Polly, Arthur, John and Michael spent six months in prison and got as far as the gallows before Tommy arranged their reprieves (in that Russian jewel heist, he’d bagged some incriminating personal correspondence from King George V, which he used to blackmail the Crown into releasing his family, bagging himself an OBE in the process).
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