What made the strange physician easy to track was his lack of interest in fellow human beings. Of late his immediate vicinity had taken on the look of a sea already parted – the torrent of force in his step drove its way through a crowd with effortless authority, while any path he chose became
Month: June 2010
On the other side of the grimy windows, the darkness was punctuated by occasional flashes of villages passing in a glow of orange lamplight. James and Nick had occupied the back seat, falling asleep under a woollen blanket they had bought at a market back in Ankara. James, the lighter sleeper, jerked awake at intervals,
At a Piccadilly café the raven discovered a love for cherries, which Millie indulged by buying several fruit-topped cupcakes. As he hopped around inside the cake tray and dusted himself with coloured icing, there was a chuffed and bubbly monkey-chatter to his chirp. Large corseted bosoms in that season’s colours bobbed on opposite currents across
After the unfortunate incidents at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hercules Gray led the two members of the Order of St. John to his headquarters, atop the tallest building in New York City. This was through the hidden high-speed elevator, designed by Gray himself, which went up ninety floors in the space of a few
It was meant to be the historical exhibition of the century. Thousands of ancient artifacts, coming from all over the world, brought together under one roof – New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Only one man could bring about such an achievement – Hercules Gray! For months, Gray’s own Hercules Foundation for Research and