The Creator's MapRome, October 1952. The architect Jos Maria Hurtado and his wife Montserrat open their newspaper to find that their friend Prince Junio Vivarini, Fascist and Nazi sympathizer, has been found dead, decapitated in the Swiss Alps. In the event of his death, they had been told they would receive a mysterious package containing secrets he could not reveal while living. Who was the Prince? And why were Hurtado and his wife chosen as the repository of these

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become a survivor - and he is adamant that a weekend in the wilderness with Stanny and his Uncle Joff will do the trick

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and face a fearful monster at Water-Step Hill

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so it was back to old-fashioned legwork

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