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A Dangerous Inheritance (Paperback)
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A Dangerous Inheritance (Paperback)
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Loot Price R348
Discovery Miles 3 480
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My husband inspired me to write this a book when he bought a
vehicle via the internet, and then travelled to Manchester to
collect it. The vehicle was an American GMC Safari. After gaining
possession he removed two of the back seats and discovered a
deliberate slit in the carpet which had been previously hidden.
Knowing it had last been in Latvia for a year, he wondered whether
anything had been hidden there and I thought 'what if' ....... We
have travelled extensively across Europe and I had been
particularly entranced by the ruined Byzantine city of Mistras set
on a hillside near Sparta in Greece. I decided to incorporate this
setting in a book, as it seemed to be the ideal place for stolen
artefacts to be hidden. The book starts with an event at the end of
WW2 when a German soldier stationed in Greece decides to defect and
steals a few artefacts from a hoard plundered by his Senior
Officer. On his way to the coast he hides the artefacts within some
old ruins he has taken shelter in on his journey. Once back home
the soldier decides it would be prudent to make a new start in
France. Eventually he marries a French girl, has a family and later
his wife becomes very sick. He never manages to return to Greece.
When his friend decides to sell his GMC Safari American Day van the
ex-soldier buys it. About this time, he makes a trip to Strasbourg
and come face-to-face with his ex- Senior Officer who recognises
him and he has to beat a hasty retreat hoping the vehicle has not
been spotted. On another trip he suspects he is being followed. As
he has the map with him, he decides to post it to his
grand-daughter but because he has no stamps, he needs to buy
pre-paid postage envelops from a service area. In the service area
car park, where he bought the envelopes, he decides to hide the map
and envelope under the carpet in a special hiding place. Two
Latvian stowaways witness him leave the van unlocked and decide to
steal the van. To the present time (2012), my main character, Perry
Smithieson, buys a vehicle via the internet, and after collecting
it from Manchester discovers an old envelope hidden under the car's
carpets. Inside the envelope is a sketchy map of a site in Greece.
The envelope is addressed to a French lady. Perry decides that he
will attempt to deliver the letter. In doing so, he discovers that
the lady is a young school-teacher. As they get on well, they
decide together it would be fun to try and find whatever her
Grandfather had indicated was hidden. It is not long before they
discover that they could be exposing themselves to danger .... The
artefact that they locate is a diamond - the Akbar Shah diamond.
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