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The Flight of the Falcon

By Daphne Du Maurier

$10.00

Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. But now it is the twentieth century, and the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present become ever more evident.

A young courier of Sunshine Tours conducts a coach-party of Anglo-American tourists from Genoa to Rome. One of the party, an English schoolmistress, draws his attention to a vagrant woman lying asleep in the doorway of a church near the via Veneto. The posture of the vagrant, supplicating and bowed, reminds him of something which he cannot name. The courier is so caught up in the ensuing drama, so strangely connected with his own boyhood memories and with the Festival shorting to take place in the historic streets of Ruffano, when the students of the University are to enact scenes from the life of the mad Duke, known as The Falcon. The story moves swiftly to an exciting climax, in which the young courier plays a leading role.

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