The Stolen Da Vinci Manuscripts

By Joshua Elliot James

When Arcadia Jones, a Harvard professor and curator of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City receives a scrap of what appears to be an old manuscript, she has it carbon dated and confirms that it is from the 1500’s During research, her hunch suggests that the sample is from one of da Vinci’s lost books that were stolen from his protégé, after his death. There is no accompanying letter, only a return address, so her only course of action is to travel to Rome and contact the sender, who corroborates her intuition, and tells her that there are eighty books full of notes and diagrams of his inventions which were discovered at the Roman Baths in England. She estimates their worth at millions of pounds, but he informs Arcadia that they were stolen from him - except one page. A clue suggests that a local bar patron may be the culprit, which leads her to Geneva and puts her hot on his tail and a separate thief and murderer who leads her to Panama. Will she be able to find the murderer and get back the manuscripts?

Arcadia’s trusted ex-boyfriend, Gavin, bitter at being rejected at his marriage proposal, steals the recovered manuscripts from Arcadia and heads to Singapore to sell them to a billionaire collector, but Arcadia forces him to double cross the buyer, who tortures him in the hope Arcadia will exchange her former boyfriends freedom for the books. But Arcadia does not budge in. Murder happens again before she recovers the books and takes the first flight out which is to Australia and then to Spain where she is chased first by killers and then by the police who is accusing her having shot a police man. Will she be able to convince the police that she is innocent and that she has a very important mission to fulfill?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joshua Elliot James
• Release date: Dec 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311852069

Joshua Elliot James

I am a fiction writer by passion.I always wanted to be a writer and wrote my first book at the age of ten. But life made me choose a career in software engineering to put bread on the table. Born in New York City to Immigrant parents I decided I wanted to see the world. My job gave me the freedom to work as a contractor in different countries and cities all over the world. I am married to a beautiful German Lady and has a little daughter.I decided to take a break from computer programming to follow my passion of writing Archaeological Mystery as I am also very interested in the history. Right now I am also dabbling with books in other genres which will be published soon.

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THE STOLEN DA VINCI MANUSCRIPTS

Episode 1 & Episode 2

Author: Joshua Elliot James

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Published 2014

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CONTENTS

Copyright

About the Author

EPISODE 1: THE STOLEN DA VINCI MANUSCRIPTS & DEATH IN GENEVA

1: The Mysterious Letter

2: Visit To London

3: The Mysterious Man From Rome

4: Late Night Detective Work

5: Back On Track

6: The Tango Competition

7: The Suspects

8: Murder In Geneva

9: Panama And One Purple Bag

10: Back To Rome Meeting The Traitor

11: Retrieving Valuable Manuscripts

EPISODE 2: THE STOLEN DA VINCI MANUSCRIPTS & MURDER IN SPAIN

1: Singapore

2: Calling In Favors

3: The Millionaire

4: Confusion

5: Facing Gavin

6: Being Chased In Rome

7: Murder In Spain

8: Under Arrest

9: Finally Back To London

10: Romance in Rome

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• SECRET KNIGHT - CONSPIRACY, Arthurian Saga Series, Book 1

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His appearance stirs great excitement in Eric, a young working lad, who often daydreams about knights and the good old days of Camelot. When he overhears the stranger plotting to kill King Arthur he becomes greatly distressed. Eric risks his own life to save the kingdom and warn the King. Can Eric restore Camelot to its former glory and save the King and save Camelot?

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