Holis

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Actress Lucy Waring leaves London to join her married sister Phyllida Forli in Corfu where the Forlifamily own three houses—two of them modern. One is occupied by the Forlis, the other rented outtoGodfrey Manning who is taking photographs for a coffee table style book. The third, the much olderCastello, is rented to actor Julian Gale and his son Max who is a musician. Julian Gale hastwogodchildren, twins Spiro and Miranda, who work in the Forli's houses. The idyllic scene is shatteredwhen Spiro is reported drowned after falling overboard while out at night sailing in Godfrey Manning'sboatOne theme running through the book is the idea that Corfu is the setting for The Tempest. Another theme is that of a dolphin which will approach humans.
When actress Lucy Waring’s play folds inLondon and she finds herself at loose ends, she joins her sister Phyllida at the Villa Forli on the island of Corfu, expecting a quiet pre-Easter holiday of sun and swimming. Instead, she finds herselfin the middle of murder. The first indication that something is wrong occurs when she is swimming and someone starts shooting at the dolphin who comes in to play .Then Spiro, the son of Phyllida’shousekeeper, is lost at sea while working as photographer’s assistant to Godrey Manning, a nearby tenant. It also soon becomes evident that something is amiss at the Castello, where celebrated actor SirJulian Gale and his musician son Max are resident. Max aggressive lydis courages visitors and the gardener, Adoni, is employed to keep trespassers away, forcibly if necessary. When Lucy finds the bodyof a local smuggler among the rocks and catches Max Gale out in a lie concerning when he last saw him, Lucy is certain that Max is up to no good. What is Max doin, Lucywants to know? Why and how didthe smuggler die? What is wrong with Sir Julian Gale? Who shot at
the dolphin? Why hasn’t Spiro’s body been found? Lucy finds the answers to all these qu
estions whenthe dolphin is beached one...
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