Blogs in August 2021

Assignment in Brittany 20th August 2021

OCCUPIED BRITTANY, 1940… Hearne looked at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist. Three hours ago he had joked with the red-haired pilot over a last cup of hot chocolate. Three hours ago he had stood on English earth. Three...

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The Salzburg Connection 12th May 2015

Twenty-one years ago, with the Allies on their heels, the Nazis hid a sealed chest in the dark, forbidding waters of the Finstersee, a lake surrounded by the brooding peaks of the Austrian Alps. One of the few men...

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North from Rome 1st January 1970

Fictional American playwright, William Lammiter, travels to Rome to come to terms with his broken engagement with Eleanor Halley. He discovers, however, that she is now the fiancee of Count Luigi Pirotta. Whilst there he has a chance encounter...

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Prelude to Terror 1st January 1970

This takes place mainly in Vienna in the late 1970s, and partly in Salzburg, featuring Colin Grant, who is on the hunt for a specific painting, which he has been instructed to buy at any cost. It brings together...

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The Venetian Affair 1st January 1970

Fenner burned Rosenfeld’s message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that...

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