The Missing Party-Girl: A Rags-to-Riches Cozy Mystery Romance by Nhys Glover (read after .txt) 📗

THE MISSING PARTY-GIRL Minerva’s Mysteries 2

Nhys Glover

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. With the exception of historical events and people used as background for the story, or those clearly in the public domain, the names, characters and incidents portrayed in this work come wholly from the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental

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OTHER BOOKS BY NHYS GLOVER

ANCIENT ROMAN HISTORICAL ROMANCES:

Liquid Fire

The Barbarian's Mistress

Lionslayer's Woman (Sequel to Liquid Fire)

White Raven's Lover (Sequel to Barbarian's Mistress)

The Gladiator's Bride (Sequel to White Raven's Lover)

WEREWOLF KEEP TRILOGY:

Guardian of Werewolf Keep

Imprisoned at Werewolf Keep

Defiance at Werewolf Keep

Insane (A novella)

NEW ATLANTIS TIME TRAVEL SERIES:

Nine Lives (Cara/Jac)

The Dreamer's Prince (Jane/Julio)

Savage (Faith/ Luke)

Shared Soul (Maggie/Travis)

Bitter Oath (Liv/ Rene)

The Titan Drowns (Eilish/Max, Karl/Lizzie, Pia/Marco)

The Key (Kat/Bart)

Pieces (Krista/Dirk)

Second Chance (Bree/Hakon)

Watcher (Jin/Rafe)

Vision of You (Ellen/Duke)

Osiris (Takhara/Dan)

Causality (Willow/Jarvidh)

Gods of Time (Teagan/Jason, Lucien/Alba)

Book of Seeds (Shay/Cy)

SCORPIO SONS SF/SHIFTER ROMANCE SERIES:

1: Colton   2: Connor   3: Cooper   4: Chase

5: Cameron   6: Caleb   7: Conrad   8: Charles

GREYWORLD SWEET PARANORMAL ROMANCE

Your World or Mine?

Her World or Ours?

Their Worlds Collide

His World on Repeat

REVERSE HAREM ADVENTURES:

THE AIRLUDS TRILOGY:

The Sacrifice

The Chosen One

Goddess Unbound

THE AIRSHAN CHRONICLES

The Five

Daemon

The Devourer

GLADIATOR

1. Typhon  2.Asterius  3. Talos  4.Orion  5.Marcus

 THE DANANS

Captive

Escape

Reunion

Outliers

Gift

Shattered

Stolen

ALFIE WIMPLE TRILOGY (Paranormal Romantic Comedy)

Sticks and Standing Stones Can Break my Bones

But Ferrets Can Never Hurt Me

Dragons, On the Other Hand...

OTHERS:

The Way Home (Ghost Romance)

Caught in a Dream (SF Sweet Romance)

Labyrinth of Light (New Age Inspirational)

For Love of Liam (A Sweet Romanic Comedy)

Haunted (A sweetish Romantic Mystery)

Find out more about Nhys and her books here:

www.nhysglover.com

Prologue

DIGITAL FILE 6

Well my dear, let's get down to it, hmm?

You have solved my first Mystery and sorted at least some of my treasures. Hugo will send you another file in which you may find information to help with this next Mystery, as well as help find more treasures stored in that old farmhouse.

So, if I could call the first Mystery the Mystery of the Lost Child, I would call this second one the Mystery of the Missing Party-Girl.

In the sixties, the Swinging Sixties, as they're now called, I was having the time of my life in Swinging London. I wanted to be an actress, as I think you learned from my first journal. And I was of an age where I thought I was tougher and smarter than everyone else. It's amazing how stupid people are when they're young. I'd say youth is wasted on the young, but I'm fairly certain someone else said that already, and I hate to plagiarize or be unoriginal. (laugh)

There I was, a young, very attractive woman, ready to take on the world, at a time when the world was changing at a phenomenal speed. Maybe not as fast as it's changing now, but certainly faster than it had done for centuries. We were all questioning the world we had inherited and finding it unsatisfactory. We were experimenting with our freedom. No generation before us had ever had the freedom we were given. You can't possibly understand. Or maybe you can, my darling Adeline, because you have now been given your freedom. I have given you your own version of the sixties. Huh, I do like that idea!

Anyway, my parents were far too indulgent, and they were willing to support me as I made my way into the career I wanted for myself. I'd been obsessed from an early age with films. As I told you, my view of my father as a war hero was modeled on those war films. Watch a few some time. There is something... I don't know. Something that touches the core of a person. Something that is lacking in these modern day super hero films.

Off I went to London, to start beating the pavement in search of acting roles. Of course, I expected that all it would take was for some influential person in the industry to see me and my potential, and I’d be turned into a famous actress. It had happened that way before.

I found a flat with a couple of girls who were trying to get into films just like me. Not only did we take part in cattle calls and worked hard to get ourselves auditions, but we fought to attract the interest of an agent—because everyone knew you had to have an agent. And we attended every industry party we could get an invitation to, in the hopes of meeting someone useful to us.

You have my permission to read my journal for 1965. I was very lucky that year to get a one-liner in the James Bond film ‘Thunderball’. My part was filmed at the Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, even though it looked like I