intrigue s u m m e r g u i d e 2 0 1 7 1 7 1 Passion and Paradise aBc 3 oLd BaHamas.com y r n S daLter one mainer s ath to ortune, knighthood, and murder. A e arr akespi tured iththe uke Winds rintheBaha as. he uke as app intedg ern r theislandsin ll inghisa di ati n r thethr ne ngland e t a i a a a i putthe ster nthesil ers reenin . n early July 1943, the world’s attention was di- verted from World War II by a shocking murder. Sir Harry Oakes–Maine native, adventurer, gold prospector, philanthropist, British baronet, and one of the wealthiest men of his time–had been found brutally slain in his bedroom at West- bourne, the mansion on his rambling Bahamas estate. In the investigation that followed, justice would be stymied by po- lice ineptitude and corruption, the indictment and trial of the wrong man, the shadow of the American Mafia, accusations of ritual killing, and the incessant meddling of officials all the way up to the former King of England. Despite the number of possible suspects who stood to benefit from Sir Harry’s death, the quest for his killer was inexplicably terminated. The mur- der remains one of the modern age’s most fascinating un- A e arr akespi tured iththe uke Winds rintheBaha as. he uke as app intedg ern r theislandsin ll inghisa di ati n r thethr ne Sir Harry Oakes, the Bahamian Yankee t