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1930s: How can you solve a murder before it’s happened?
Sepulchre Street
What you need to know before your trail
Rachel Savernake is attending renowned artist Damaris Gethin’s latest exhibition, featuring live models who pose as famous killers. But that’s just the warm-up act…
Unsure why she was invited, Rachel is soon cornered by the artist who asks her a haunting favour: she wants Rachel to solve her murder. Damaris then takes to the stage set with a guillotine, the lights go out – and Damaris executes herself.
Why would Damaris take her own life? And, if she died by her own hand, what did she mean by ‘solve my murder’?
There are many questions to answer, and the clues are there for those daring enough to solve them…
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: Fleet Street
- B: Denmark Street
- C: Denmark Street/Charing Cross
- England - Kent
- H: Romney Marsh
Travel Guide
From London to Rye to Romney Marsh
There’s a trio of settings here! From the sooty streets of London, the art galleries and Fleet Street, we head to the more rural settings of Sussex and Kent.
London is strongly evoked with its cobbled streets, art galleries and promises of artistic futures. There’s wealth here, and political aspirations as witnessed by the actions we see on Fleet Street.
Sussex
Rye is a small town and has been of strategic importance over the years due to the fact that it is only two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. It was an important member of the mediaeval Cinque Ports confederation.
It’s famous for smuggling – The notorious Hawkhurst Gang used its ancient inns The Mermaid Inn and The Olde Bell Inn, which are said to be connected to each other by a secret passageway.
Sepulchre Street in the novel is also located here.
Kent
Romney Marsh remote wetland on the borders of Sussex and Kent. It’s very remote and because of this, it was a smuggler’s paradise between the 1600s and 1800s. It’s also well-known for sheep rearing and the sheep raised here are very sought after.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Sepulchre Street
Destination/location: London, Rye, Romney Marsh Author/guide: Martin Edwards Departure Time: 1930s
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