By Hugh Pentecost
A Nazi’s widow involves the Beaumont lodge with demise in her entourage.
As befits the chief of recent York’s most interesting inn, Pierre Chambrun has sure criteria for his visitors on the Beaumont. have been it no longer for the pleading of the hotel’s proprietor, no amount of cash may convince him to permit the Baroness Charmian Zetterstrom a room. She is the lovely younger widow of a Nazi struggle legal; her husband used to be an notorious sadist who escaped ahead of the autumn of the Reich to reside out the remainder of his days in hedonistic isolation on a Mediterranean isle. Off the island for the 1st time because the struggle, the baroness involves long island with an entourage of misfits, and mayhem follows. the 1st sufferer is the baroness’s puppy, that's savagely murdered via an unknown hand. the subsequent to die might be human, forcing Chambrun to spot the killer, or probability having his lodge destroyed through the vindictive ghosts of the fallen Reich.
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Even so it would be hard work. " Biggles shook his head. "From what I remember of the islands—not a hope. They are mostly hills, and covered with virgin jungle into the bargain. Still, I could have a look round. " Biggles turned again to Li Chi, whose expression was now one of disappointment. " "Yes, I know. " "I thought the big lake on Elephant Island. It is sheltered in bad weather, and being surrounded by jungle, would not be easy to see from above. " "I know the place. It has much to recommend it," agreed Biggles.
We could build rough sheds at one end of the runway and camouflage them with branches—and there'll be plenty of branches to spare when we start shifting the timber. " There was silence for a minute, as if everyone was pondering on the scheme. " inquired Biggles. "I am amazed," said Li Chi. "I should never have thought of it. More and more I begin to understand why you British succeed. You have an answer for everything. " "This will so much tickle their sense of humour that they will work twenty hours a day," returned Li Chi.
Tamashoa knew of those two pink pearls," said Li Chi seriously. "Such was his mortification when he lost them that he sent a special messenger to me offering to buy them back at any price, as he wanted them for his favourite lady. I sent word that I no longer had them. He asked me what had become of them. I told him that I had Oven them as a present to a British flying man named Major Bigglesworth for saving my life. " "I'll bear it in mind," replied Biggles thoughtfully. "But this won't do. Let's have lunch.