The year nears its end; a spoilt, rich girl is suddenly impoverished.
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The Italian Risorgimento is in full swing: Victoria receives news of her fathers economic ruin, and she must return to Rome, a home she barely could remember. The long expedition begins, fraught with danger.
Country to country she journeyssteamship to steam locomotive, past to present, encounter to encounter Down the line, a deadly encounter: Shes plunged into confusion. And progressing through events that will lead to romance, Villa Dorothea becomes the element in which the main part of the story moves, conditioning the transformation of both characters in a tangled web woven together by fate and passiontwo opposing natures brought together for disaster by the catastrophic force.
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Wartime distress does not decelerate the process of the ever-growing involvement in attitude towards love the dangerous game played, the charade the atmosphere that radiates amid the sanguinary atrocities of mid-nineteenth century Italy. The Dark Intruder reflects an urgent, passionate subject born, as in romantic bargains, of a tangled web woven by intrigue, charm, fear It bears a message: Street of the Five Moons. The Birth of Venus. The Woman of Rome. A Somershill Manor Novel. The Roman Spring of Mrs.
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The Murder on Via Belpoggio. The Professor and the Siren. The story takes place in San Francisco, where a series of gruesome murders attracts the attention of Brett Kingsford Leslie Nielsen , a playboy detective with a secret crime lab, a library of occult tomes, and an invaluable dwarf assistant Charles Bolender. His friend, Robert Mark Richman , soon to be married to Evelyn Judi Meredith , keeps having trance-outs at the oddest times, and looks to be a likely suspect - especially since he knows the victims.
However, the killer growls like a beast and kills with a set of murderous bestial claws, two attributes which Robert lacks. Long story short - Robert had a deformed siamese twin which was separated at birth, and is not only killing everyone who knows of its existance in preparation for taking over Robert's body by occult means, but is also possibly the embodiment of an ancient Sumerian demon. This short description really doesn't do the plot justice - there are numerous little creepy details that elevate Dark Intruder above the norm.
The killer leaves an ivory carving at each murder, and with each successive murder the carving mutates more. What appears to be a statuette of a demon in the possession of Kingsford's chinese mystic friend is not made of stone, but mummified flesh and bone. The same mystic makes mention of "banished gods Which is probably why I found Dark Intruder so cool: I first saw it when I was discovering Lovecraft.
Had Black Cloak been picked up, I wonder if the series would have gone on in a similar vein I also indulge in wild fantasies of an episode featuring famed San Fran eccentric Emperor Norton.
Admittedly tough, since Norton died in Dark Intruder is flawed, in many ways, however. Though director Harvey Hart keeps the camera moving, the proceedings all too often show their small screen origin.
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The cover of both the first edition paperback and later hardback show Biggles presumably with the Bentley car and the 'dark intruder' aircraft in the background. There are no story illustrations in this book. Biggles and the Dark Intruder. Publication Details - published by Brockhampton Press.
Biggles and the Dark Intruder
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