Unintended Consequences - A Wartime Murder Mystery
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN: B005FG2IV8
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
1943 : Wartime England. When a Nazi bomber is downed over rural Devon the pilot is shot dead with two neat taps to the head.
2003 : A respected aviation archaeologist excavating the wreckage becomes the target of an assassin. Two crimes, more than 60 years apart, don’t appear to be connected but their investigation leads the police and MI5 back to war-time Jersey as they attempt to unravel a series of baffling mysteries and a deadly secret that lay hidden for sixty years.
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We are to catch the eight o’clock out in the morning. I’ll go over what was said later, I have to make another call. But be prepared for another flight, this time to Jersey.’ ‘Things are warming up. May I presume the codes have been decoded?’ said Ruth. Raven smiled. ‘Jersey! Hey, I’ve never been there.’ ‘It’s not all it’s made out to be, besides, now they’ve cracked the codes we’ll have a treasure hunt on our hands,’ said Kelly. The interview continued at 4: 00 pm. Chief Inspector.
From Ludford. We stayed overnight at a place called Urswick. There’s a Great Urswick and a Little Urswick. We stayed at an Inn called The General Burgoyne. I remember it well because it was there that I read about a Neolithic stone circle near the moor. I remember making a mental note that, one day, I would return to investigate the stone circle because I could find very few references to it therefore I thought it might not have been fully excavated. ‘I remember the next morning was a Sunday and.
Crewman…all related. Too much of a coincidence isn’t it? Do you know anything about his background? And remember, his nephew died at Dartington. But he had an unnamed accomplice, possible going by the name of Schuler. So who, besides yourself, Schrapler, Frankel and Spellenberg knew about the Nightingale operation?’ asked Kelly. Blessing thought for a while. He was genuinely deeply shocked at the revelation. All these years he had nursed the fact that within Edelweiss lay the key to a fortune.
Allowing for the exhumation of Civil War graves in an attempt to obtain moral redress for General Franco’s victims. The archaeologists’ task was to identify the remains of people, mostly left-wing sympathizers, trade unionists, Republicans, Jews and Freemasons, allegedly shot by the Guardia Civil during the Civil War and whose bodies allegedly still lay in the orange groves. Her field work colleagues asserted that Marika had worked solidly throughout the winter and had only been in England for.
Wife, ‘with Anne.’ Irene looked at Anne. There were tears in Anne’s eyes. Irene reached out and, in a gesture of forgiveness, and sympathy for the bereaved mother, Anne responded. They both held each other. ‘I should like to see this Jersey of yours, Chris. It sounds as if there are a lot of ghosts to be laid there. ‘ Blessing turned to Anne. ‘I am so sorry I brought this on you Anne. If only I had known.’ ‘And what would you have done Chris?’ asked Anne. ‘I…I.I don’t know.’ ‘Would you still.