Author: hamiltoncrane
On the eve of World War II, London art teacher Emily Seeton’s uncanny drawings arouse suspicion — and then an invitation to join a secret mission… A delightful mystery with “a most beguiling protagonist” (The New York Times).
Have the smugglers made a grave mistake?Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.As Miss Seeton sketches the most notorious tomb in Plummergen churchyard – the one built for 19th-century smuggler Abraham … the one built for 19th-century smuggler Abraham Voller – she meets a young American tourist. He claims to be a descendant of the Voller family, but is he a truly innocent ancestor-hunter, or do smugglers…