The Trick of the Treasure

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Navigating mystery and lies - and their own precarious love.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Struggling with the novelty of their engagement Constance and Solomon are delighted to dig their teeth into a new mystery - the vanishing of a treasure hoard from a locked strong room.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The treasure only just brought home by adventurer Barnabas Lloyd was supposed to pay off his debts and rebuild the family's finances. Since no one broke into the house suspicion inevitably falls on Lloyd's own household - his beautiful wife his dotty maiden sister and his spirited children. Or perhaps a friend who is not above a bit of fortune hunting on his own.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But did the treasure in fact ever leave the ship? Its disgraced captain and crew have to be investigated which brings its own complications especially when one of the crew looks enough like Solomon to be his missing twin brother.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>And then their chief suspect is murdered and everything becomes much more dangerous...</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes/Themes:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Locked-Room Theft</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Disguises / Doppelgänger / Secret Twin</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Family Secrets</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Amateur Sleuths</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ High-Society Scandal</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Murder Mystery with a Twist</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Treasure Hunt</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Fortune Hunting Gone Wrong</span></p><p></p>