Madame Midas

This work is a fictionalized true crime based loosely on a real-life female Australian mining speculator of the late 19th Century, Alice Cornwell. When the sophisticated French prisoner Gaston Vandeloup flees to the goldfields of Ballarat, he meets the remarkable Madame Midas, who has made her fortune in Ballarat's incredible mines industry. But her wealth makes her prey to a series of awful event...