The Islands in the Bay – Chapter (222) Belated Honeymoon

 

October

 

After marrying in August, Danny Nightingale and his wife Molly, deferred their honeymoon until September and instead just had a few days in Abbottsford and stayed at the Regents Hotel.

In September they had their honeymoon proper, an extended tour of European capitals encompassing Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Warsaw, Prague, Bern, Vienna and culminating in Berlin in time for the Oktoberfest.

The beer festival was still going on when they arrived in Frankfurt for the book fair where they met up with their publisher, Max Parsons.

It was of particular importance to them this year because the

crime fiction writers had two books to be promoted, the latest instalment of the Fraser Markham series, a character creator by Danny, and the long awaited second book containing the new protagonist Sharon Jacques created by both of them.

The Frankfurt Book Fair or the Frankfurter Buchmesse, FBM for short) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Several thousand exhibitors representing book publishing, multimedia and technology companies, as well as content providers from all over the world gather in order to negotiate international publishing rights and license fees. 

The first three days are restricted exclusively to professional visitors; the general public attend the fair on the weekend.

Saturday was their favourite day as the got to meet the readers, many of them were fans but many of them weren’t, unfortunately they couldn’t stay for the last day as they had to get back to the UK.

 

Molly’s grandfather Sir Avery Arnold appointed Bramstock, Goodman, Crossfield, and Bushe of Abbottsford, to manage his affairs, which they did for many years.

After his death they handled Molly’s affairs, all her finances and all the assets from his estate, until the occasion of her 25th birthday when she would inherit her grandfather’s estate in its entirety and overnight become insanely rich. 

While they managed the estate, they also had discretion to release funds at her request for what Sir Avery called her “Special Projects” and it was Clive Crossfield, who handled her affairs on behalf of firm.  

So on the day after her birthday Molly met with him at Cliff Haven where they completed all the necessary paperwork and Sir Avery’s wishes were finally fulfilled.

Although she then had complete control of the estate, she still retained Bramstock and co to manage her affairs in the same way they did for her grandfather.