Egyptian Spy Photo Gallery
We visited Salisbury Cathedral in the south of England. We wanted to research the key scene early in the novel where Dora and Edward confront the enemy at their wedding. This visit is also the theme of the book trailer. The yew is from South Downs National Park. Dora and Edward took a stroll here in 1915 when they first met. They cut their names in the bark of the tree.
Map of Salisbury, England, near Stonehenge.
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- Salisbury Cathedral is inside the Close, a medieval structure complete with towers, secret rooms, and medieval atmosphere perfect for a thriller novel.
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- The greensward in the Cloisters is full of dead bodies. Dora doesn’t want to be one of them.
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- We were looking up at the arches to locate the West End Gallery where the ghoul stood laughing at the Wares.
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- See a picture of the Close up close? This is St. Ann’s Gate where Dora enters the complex. We wouldn’t want to be in the room above the arch. It looks like the Tower of London!
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- The cathedral was full of vast, empty spaces perfect for the fiend who follows the Wares everywhere to make his entrance.
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- These pictures are part of the town of Salisbury which adds background Gothic atmosphere to the novel.
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- Ditto. More Gothic atmosphere. Creepy, right?
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- Salisbury Cathedral as it might have looked on September 30, 1934, the morning of Dora’s and Edward’s wedding.
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- Trail in the south of England
Dora gazed up at him sadly. This was the man she waited fifteen years to marry, for whom she forsook her first husband, for whom she once sailed to Europe after the Great War to go to the Paris Peace Conference, for whom she would still do anything or go anywhere. Just brushing against his arm as she was doing now made her feel an inseparable closeness. It reminded her of what last night in bed could have been like if it wasn’t for the blood on his hand. But the problem was there was always blood on his hand or a ghoul behind a bush when it came to Colonel Sir Edward Ware.
This second thriller novel in the series fits in with the mood created by all this gothic atmosphere.