Hornblower on the case!
Here is the first post of Act II of Jayne Barnard's "The Evil Eye of Africa."
The first post is here.
A list of all the characters is here.
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Remember that if you think you have solved the mystery email your deduction to: madamesaffron at gmail.com.
Madame will be drawing from all the correct solutions for some prizes from Tyche Books!
Keep your sightglass full, your firebox trimmed and your water iced.
KJ
"The Evil Eye of Africa"
By Jayne Barnard
A Guess-the-Murderer Mystery in Two Acts
By Jayne Barnard
A Guess-the-Murderer Mystery in Two Acts
Act II: Hercule Hornblower Investigates
August 16, 1898
Following the discovery of the remains of Baron von Boddy in England, I am summoned home from Egypt by my present employer, Mrs. Midas-White, to agitate the little gray cells over the baron’s mysterious death. I have discovered much of his last months but am no closer to finding the treasure he sought for Mrs. Midas-White.
Thus far I have assembled in my timetable:
1. April 1 – Mrs. Midas-White agrees to fund Baron von Boddy’s expedition in search of a Nubian treasure, the fabled Eye of Africa.
2. April 21 – Baron von Boddy departs England in his solo expeditionary airship, the Jules Verne.
3. May 3 – Baron arrives in Cairo and pledges Mrs. M-W’s credit for his palatial suite at Shepherd’s Hotel.
4. May 15 – Baron accepts delivery “on approval” of several expensive items of ladies’ jewellery. A young widow residing in the hotel is seen wearing them.
5. May 30 – Baron departs Cairo at dusk to disguise his direction over the desert. The young widow soon vanishes from Cairo along with the jewellery.
6. June 30 – British Surface Navy Destroyers at the mouth of the Suez Canal sight the Jules Verne a few miles inland.
7. July 15 – The Jules Verne is spotted free-floating, low over the English Channel off Cornwall. It is boarded and found deserted.
8. July 16 - Mrs. Midas-White sends me to Cairo to discover the baron’s whereabouts with the treasure, which she feels she has more than paid for.
9. August 3 – Baron von Boddy’s remains are dragged ashore in Cornwall by a storm tide.
10. August 10 – I, Hercule Hornblower, am summoned like a dog to damp and chilly Cornwall. Only by baying ferociously at my employer via international cablegram was I permitted to travel in the luxury to which I am accustomed. Never again will Hercule Hornblower work for an American woman who whistles him to heel like a puffed poodle.
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