![]() ![]() The solution to the puzzle was obtained by deciphering the codes: "Catherine's long finger over shadows earth buried yellow amulet midday points the hour in light of equinox look you" and the acrostic "close by Ampthill" from the 16 paintings contained within the book. The book has been out of print for 20 years yet interest in Masquerade remains strong. "The fact was that it was really there buried in the cold, wet earth." In those days there was no Lottery and the Daily Mirror had not even started doing bingo. The Independent picked up on this next day (Author calls for owner of jeweled amulet that bewitched the nation to come forward), and that started it bouncing round the internet again. ![]() "It was right for the times and probably would be impossible now in the age of the internet. Masquerade author appeals for hare, it headlined the story. Richard Hartley wrote in with some of his theories: Gemini seemed to me at the time, and certainly after the solution was revealed, a kind of confirmer (Gem in Eye) though KW did not allude to this as far as I knownot in Quest for the Golden Hare, the. "We thought we only have to be tapped on the shoulder by a policeman and that would blow the whole gaff. Kit says that only four people spotted thisone of whom was 12-year-old girl. He and University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne, who acted as celebrity witness, set out to bury the hare with some trepidation. Despite the enthusiasm of his publisher Tom Maschler of Jonathan Cape, Williams really expected to sell the plates for the book as individual oil paintings and was astonished when it went on to sell nearly a million copies. ![]()
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