Drummond Family in 1944 - 8 years later they were found murdered in France
GETTYTHE DRUMMOND AFFAIR MURDER AND MYSTERY IN PROVENCE
STEPHANIE MATTHEWS AND DANIEL SMITH
icon, 288pp, £18.99
Jack Drummond, born in 1891, was a renowned biochemist, a scientific adviser to the Ministry of Food during the war and knighted in 1944.
He produced a plan for food distribution based on ‘sound nutritional principles’ despite rationing. Post-war, he became director of research at Boots.
‘But as [the authors] show in The Drummond Affair,’ wrote Alex Wade in the TLS, ‘if Drummond was a pillar of the establishment, there was also something of the éminence grise about him. Was it possible that he was in fact a spy? And was this why he, his wife and daughter were killed by the roadside on a sultry Provençal evening on August 4, 1952?’
Was this why he, his wife and daughter were
