Fontana Books-William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.

CHAPTER ONE He was a man who travelled much and always in singular comfort, so that he had little of the curiosity of the tourist and much of the impatience of the executive who must despatch his business and be gone again. However, this Easter Sunday in Rome was different. It was a family...

CHAPTER ONEMonday midnightIt was Jackstraw who heard it firstit was always Jackstraw, whose hearing was an even match for his phenomenal eyesight, who heard things first. Tired of having my exposed hands alternately frozen, I had dropped my book, zipped my sleeping-bag up to the chin and was...