Murder in Mexico: Julia Swanson tells the extraordinary tale of her English grandfather and his family who were tragically caught up in the violence of the Mexican Revolution.

MY GRANDFATHER, FRANK HENRY, was an English silver mining engineer in Mexico during the Revolution of 1910-20. This is the story of a family's harrowing escape from marauding bandits at the height of the Revolution. Sadly, it was without my grandfather, as he had been brutally murdered by the bandits while defending the family from attack.

Frank was born in 1872, the son of an English rector. He took an English degree at London University and became a teacher. But his true passion was for geology and metals, and he went on to study mining. After two years on the Yukon Gold Rush ...

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