The Mystery of the Royal Tapestry
9 hrs. 1 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Adrien Goetz
Author
Adrien Goetz
Narrator
Marina Darinova
Narrator
Marina Darinova
Penelope Brei, a young and ambitious museum curator, begins work at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum and isn’t happy with her fate. She dreamed of working in the Louvre, dealing with Egyptian antiquities, living in bustling Paris—but instead she’ll have to get bored in the backwaters and day after day admire the embroidered depiction of William the Conqueror’s feats, who conquered England.
Yet boredom doesn’t threaten Penelope. Someone tries to kill her supervisor, the museum director; the Louvre director gives Penelope a secret assignment. Together with her friend—a frivolous Parisian journalist—and another journalist, local, who has also started to develop tender feelings for her, Penelope begins a hunt for the lost three meters of the Tapestry that depict the end of William’s campaign—an ending that could rewrite the entire history of the English crown.
What does the death of Princess Diana have to do with it? Secret negotiations of King Edward VIII, who once abdicated? The order of General von Holtz to transport the Tapestry to Germany as the occupation of Paris was ending in 1944? The connection is direct—and Penelope must unravel these mysteries, as well as many others—sometimes at the cost of her health.
Adrian Götz is a well-known French art historian, a Sorbonne lecturer, a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, director of the Marmottan Library at the Academy, and a brilliant writer. “The Mystery of the Royal Tapestry” is Penelope Brei’s first adventure novel, for which Götz received the prestigious detective prize “Arsène Lupin” (2007). Here, ancient history is always nearby: it invariably hides secrets that can change the familiar present of an entire continent beyond recognition—and sometimes even seriously threatens lives.
Yet boredom doesn’t threaten Penelope. Someone tries to kill her supervisor, the museum director; the Louvre director gives Penelope a secret assignment. Together with her friend—a frivolous Parisian journalist—and another journalist, local, who has also started to develop tender feelings for her, Penelope begins a hunt for the lost three meters of the Tapestry that depict the end of William’s campaign—an ending that could rewrite the entire history of the English crown.
What does the death of Princess Diana have to do with it? Secret negotiations of King Edward VIII, who once abdicated? The order of General von Holtz to transport the Tapestry to Germany as the occupation of Paris was ending in 1944? The connection is direct—and Penelope must unravel these mysteries, as well as many others—sometimes at the cost of her health.
Adrian Götz is a well-known French art historian, a Sorbonne lecturer, a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, director of the Marmottan Library at the Academy, and a brilliant writer. “The Mystery of the Royal Tapestry” is Penelope Brei’s first adventure novel, for which Götz received the prestigious detective prize “Arsène Lupin” (2007). Here, ancient history is always nearby: it invariably hides secrets that can change the familiar present of an entire continent beyond recognition—and sometimes even seriously threatens lives.
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