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Stone’s Fall
What you need to know before your trail
John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents, has been found dead in mysterious circumstances. His beautiful young widow commissions a journalist to carry out an unusual bequest in his will but as he begins his research he soon discovers a story far more complex than he could have ever imagined…
Travel Guide
Stone’s Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home.
We travel back in time from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890…
“The Church of Saint Germain des Pres, at the start of what was supposed to be spring, was a miserable place, made worse by the drabness of a city still in a state of shock, worse still by the little coffin in front of the altar……”
finally to Venice in 1867– and in the process attempt to find out the truth.
Set against the historical background of Europe’s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Stone’s Fall
Author/Guide: Iain Pears Destination: London, Paris, Venice Departure Time: mid 1800s to early 1900s
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