The Prince's Secret (The Royal Biography Cozy Mystery Series Book 2) by Sarff Julie

Author:Sarff, Julie [Sarff, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Two days later, the Prince and I find ourselves finally making our way across Scotland, heading for Northern Ireland.

It has been a wild past few days. I’ve spent most of it in the hospital. Turns out Alex bruised a couple of my ribs when he tackled me.

“Okay, you made me look ten times, there are no fingernail marks on your back, Lizzie. You imagined that part,” Alex had informed me back in the hospital, lifting up the back of my pajama shirt to do as I requested.

How could that be? I know what I saw. I saw that blackened hand reaching from the grave.

In any event, the hospital was bedlam. The reporters arrived in full-force. Inside my hospital room the police detectives traipsed in and out at all hours of the day, asking all sorts of questions:

What were the Prince and I doing in the graveyard after it was closed?

“Prince and Biographer Chase Down Tomb Robbers!” the London Times wrote.

“That is precisely what we were doing,” I responded every time a different detective, asked me the question.

According to his Highness, the Prince of Wales, was tipped off by his biographer that Greyfriars Kirkyard was going to be the next target of the tomb thieves. Royal Biographer, Trudy Rue, became suspicious of a truck she had often seen near her home in Bourton-on-the-Water. Following the truck to Scotland, Ms. Rue worried that the robbers were going after the famous 16th century grave stones in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Not knowing what else to do, she called Prince Alex, who happened to be visiting friends nearby. Police know now that these thieves are the same ones that have stolen headstones in cemeteries throughout the Cotswolds, around York, and also throughout Scotland. It was originally thought that these were random acts of violence by youth, but Scotland Yard detectives have long suspected this was all part of an underground market for stolen headstones and other tomb ornamentation.

Although the men initially fled the scene in the truck, Ms. Rue was able to give police the license plate number and the truck was stopped as it tried to cross the border. Five suspects were arrested. All five have ties to organized crime.”

I cringed reading all the lies we told, although I kept wondering, who would buy someone else’s headstone?

“Avid Black Market for 16th Century and Earlier Tombstones Fueled by Billionaire Collectors in the United States and China,” read the Daily Express answering my question the following day.

“Well, I would have never thought people would collect such things. I know a lot about the black market for ancient antiquities. It’s alive and thriving and can make a peasant in a backwards place like the tribal lands of Afghanistan a millionaire overnight, but tombstone collecting, that’s a new one. I feel ashamed of my fellow billionaire countrymen, although truth is I have nothing in common with the mega elite of any country,” I sniffed when I read the article out loud. Alex, who was trying to catch a

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