The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe: The true story of Anne Darwin and 'Canoe Man' John by David Leigh & Tony Hutchinson - True Crime Books (Paperback)

How did the most ordinary of couples pull off one of the most outrageous frauds of modern times£ And why did they carry on with the lie for so long£ Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy, John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled out to sea in his red canoe and disappeared. After a massive search and rescue operation failed to find his body, he was assumed dead, lost in the bleak North Sea. But everything was far from what it seemed. Nearly six years later, after John miraculously ret...