Cue Michael

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It wasn’t as if he was waiting in the wings, ready for the call.

The truth is, it was not the call he ever wanted to receive.

Though, to begin with, it wasn’t a call, but a visit, advising him to expect a call.  Monty arrives at his hotel room, in the depths of Africa, about to go home.

It was a very strange meeting, talking about a ghost from the past.

Then, finally, back in the city he had called home, he gets a call from Howard.

A visit, a proposition, a confrontation in a hotel bar.

This is definitely not your typical day after being told your wife, the woman you thought you had divorced a long time ago, has just died and left you everything.

Everything, when it came to Lady Agatha had a whole different meaning to that of anyone else.

It was not the first surprise that day, and it wasn’t going to be the last.

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