Miss Seeton Sings (A Miss Seeton Mystery Book 4) by Heron Carvic

Author:Heron Carvic [Carvic, Heron]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780993576331
Publisher: Farrago
Published: 2016-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

Anatole Librecksin was in a temper. All that he had schemed and worked for during the last few years looked now to be in jeopardy. England had so far shown no sign of panic over the forged banknotes. England—where Heracles Stemkos was a popular visitor, treated with deference, honored and sought after, whereas he, the social secretary who had become recognized in other countries as almost the equal of his master if not indeed the better business brain—a legend which Librecksin had been at some pains to foster—was neglected in this same England as of no account, a mere secretary and, as he had more than once overheard, dark-skinned at that. The new masters to whom he had sold his allegiance were becoming impatient at the lack of reaction on the London Stock Exchange and in the government. He too was impatient, longing to write finis to his calculated affair with Natalie Stemkos before her husband inevitably got wind of it. He and Natalie had salted away plenty, which was by now safely banked in his name—he had played his part well in regard to her and the silly trollop trusted him—but he would need more than just plenty from the moment when things were unmasked. Setting yourself up in another country in the manner in which he intended took vast quantities of cash. This was why, once he had agreed to act as representative for a consortium of international financiers acting in their own interests but with the connivance and for the profits of their respective governments and they had put him in touch with Xerxes Tolla and his smuggling organization for the main distribution of the notes, he had, on learning more of the man, arranged to go in with him privately on two minor swindles. First, a double swindle over Natalie’s jewelry: she was to have her baubles stolen while in Paris, claim the insurance and turn the money over to him for safekeeping. Even she did not know that although the colored stones still remained, he had removed all the diamonds, replacing them with zircons, and that those same diamonds were now safely packaged and bestowed under her name in the vault at the Banque du Lac until such time as he felt it safe to ask her to remove them. Shortly, through an intermediary in Paris, arranged by Tolla, the jewelry would be discovered and as extra pocket money to cover their expenses they could claim such reward as the insurance company was prepared to pay. Second, the picture thefts: he had offered to find a buyer, thus saving Tolla trouble. In fact he himself had bought the pictures through an agency in Stemkos’ name, intending to resell them later at a profit in America. If things went wrong Stemkos would bear the brunt since all had been done ostensibly by his orders while Anatole, as social secretary, could plead ignorance. But if matters went as planned he would have disappeared before they broke wide

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