The Chaplin Conspiracy: The Ballashiels Mysteries

di Stewart Ferris (Autore)

Headline Publishing Group, 2018

When hard-up aristocrat Lord `Ratty' Ballashiels finds an old film reel in his attic he discovers that it's a home movie of Charlie Chaplin's visit to Rennes-le-Chateau in the south of France. But Ratty spots a strange anomaly: clearly visible behind Chaplin is the famous millionaire priest of that village, Berenger Sauniere. The film tin is labelled `Chaplin 1932'. Sauniere died in 1917. Before Ratty can process the implication of what he has witnessed, the heat of the projector lamp ignites the film and starts a fire which rips through a wing of his manor house. Investigators subsequently discover a body amid the charred ruins and issue a warrant for Ratty's arrest. The aristocrat has no intention of handing himself in. Knowing that Sauniere reputedly buried a fabulous hoard of treasure, and convinced that the Chaplin film is a vital clue to its location, he stows away on a boat to France and becomes embroiled in a frightening and dangerous race to uncover the astonishing truth about Sauniere's legacy.

• Autore: Stewart Ferris
• Editore: Headline Publishing Group
• Collana: The Ballashiels Mysteries
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 300 p.
• Dimensioni: 129 x 198 mm
• EAN: 9781786151858

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