Nodding in time to soft jazz music, Christopher Buchan reflected on the events that had brought him to the Mood Indigo Cocktail Bar. Right now, an attractive woman, an American archaeologist, was ordering drinks for them. She insisted on paying since she had ‘dragged him away from his work.’
‘dragged him away from his work.’Her call came early this morning when she introduced herself as Melanie Draper a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, attached to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Afterwards he checked her publications, which made impressive reading. Given that it was a Saturday he didn’t have any teaching obligations before lunch, so the meeting was easy for him. She reeled him in by claiming to know the location of St. Werburgh’s treasure and was prepared to divulge the locati
