Shadows of the Silver Screen
“He’d be lucky to get away from the office before nightfall. Mr Wigram’s desk, with its empty chair, stared back at him reproachfully. Before he had set off for his meeting that morning, the elderly lawyer had instructed Alfie to make sure that all the printer’s proofs were checked by the end of the day.
“I think you have spent quite enough time at the library helping Penelope with her research,” Wigram had told him. “It’s time you got down to some real work. The deadline for the September editi...on is almost upon us.”
Alfie shook his head with a sigh. He couldn’t tell Mr Wigram that this research had involved him visiting half the fairs in London in search of Jacques Le Prince. From High Barnet to Britannia Fields, he’d searched in vain for any trace of the elusive Frenchman, asking stallholders and fairground hawkers if they had heard of Gold & Prince Pictures, but all to no avail. The case of the missing Frenchman remained unresolved.
Reluctantly he turned to the next pile of paper.MoreLess
“I think you have spent quite enough time at the library helping Penelope with her research,” Wigram had told him. “It’s time you got down to some real work. The deadline for the September editi...on is almost upon us.”
Alfie shook his head with a sigh. He couldn’t tell Mr Wigram that this research had involved him visiting half the fairs in London in search of Jacques Le Prince. From High Barnet to Britannia Fields, he’d searched in vain for any trace of the elusive Frenchman, asking stallholders and fairground hawkers if they had heard of Gold & Prince Pictures, but all to no avail. The case of the missing Frenchman remained unresolved.
Reluctantly he turned to the next pile of paper.MoreLess
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