DEAD MAN IN MALTA
DEAD MAN IN MALTA Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbour. But he is not the only one who had died there unexpectedly, as a letter to The Times points out, and a special…
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DEAD MAN IN MALTA
Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbour. But he is not the only one who had died there unexpectedly, as a letter to The Times points out, and a special investigator, Seymour of the Foreign Office, is sent out from London to find out what is going on.For in 1913 Malta is still a British protectorate, governed by the British; indeed, with its red postboxes, English beer and English language it seems like an exotic Little Britain. One of them comes down in the water but no one is hurt - except that the balloonist dies later when taken into the Naval Hospital for a check-up.
But the rumblings of war are reaching out to that small island in the Mediterranean and many of the old Maltese families are becoming divided in their loyalties: at the same time staunchly supportive to the British and yet starting to question Malta's subordinate status and