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 6
The discovery of Margaret Fillmore dead at the wheel of her burnt-out car, after a collision with a jack-knifed semi-trailer
Washington Plaza Hotel
When he met Billie at the Washington Plaza Hotel, they reassessed their situation.
Loeb’s NY Deli
( It may have shifted a couple of doors since I visited.)
80 year old woman with a walking stick.
A helicopter drowned out the sirens. One of the policemen took a quick look outside. He returned ashen. ‘Incoming look this like commandos, not the friendliest.
Gunfire erupted as agents entered the café through the
windows and door.
Hand gun
Satchel charge
The helicopter disappeared around the buildings and was out of sight in seconds. Men were dangling from the trailing ropes.
Café Explosion
Shattered brickwork framed a hole that used to be a door
A bullet exploded in the pillow beside her head as the stretcher’s legs began to fold
underneath as it entered the ambulance.
The police were quick to return fire on the exposed snipers.
Andrew Dyhin 