The Trapdoor blog is an insight into the author’s research in developing this exciting novel. Some pages from the original storybook are included in the blog with occasional handwritten notations.
The blogs allow the reader, if they choose, to move between the book and research within the blogs, by clicking on the links and delving into the material to enhance experience of locations and plots within the novel. (Images in the blog are place markers only.)
Chapter 11
He directed her past the guard stations and out the emergency exit.
Their cab was waiting for them on the street.
They travelled in silence to the airport.
Templeton Landing Café
They were directed to a wharf to their north, just beyond Waterfront Circuit.
Alex and Billie were ushered into a state room.
Port Colborne
Niagara Central Airport
Ramstein American air base Germany
Holiday Inn Mannheim
Hotel Napoleon in the eighth district, Paris.
Let’s walk down the Champs-Elysées!’
Wonderful café on the Champs-Elysées!’
We left in such a hurry that we really didn’t get a chance to pack any clothes. Just look at all these wonderful shops!’
Paris lots of shopping bags
Le Bar à Huîtres in Avenue de Wagram
Evening cruise along the River Seine
Holiday Inn in Caen
Audi A4
Post office Caen
Boîte postale caen
Fontaine-Étoupefour, they found a small Vival supermarket,
Bougy Normandy
Large glass pergola that houses a swimming pool.’
Andrew Dyhin 