A Calabash of Diamonds - Margaret Lane

The story of a secret treasure hunt in Mozambique in 1959, for a hoard of uncut diamonds buried about 70 years previously in the grave of an African Chief.

Margaret Winifred Lane (June 23, 1907 – February 14, 1994) was a British journalist, biographer and novelist, the author of more than two dozen books. She was the second wife of Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon.
She was the mother of writer Selina Hastings.

Lane was highly educated, attending St. Stephen's College and St. Hugh's College, Oxford.

After university, she worked as a reporter for the Daily Express from 1928 - 1931, and then as a special correspondent for the International News Service from 1931 - 1932. While there, she interviewed the gangster Al Capone.
From 1932 - 1938, she was a journalist for the Daily Mail, where she was the UK's highest paid woman journalist at the time.

• Condition: Used - Fair
• Type: Hardback
• Dimensions: 13 x 19 x 2cm