Red Box
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Buckinghamshire, Sunday, 15 July 1962, 9 pm. In a country house on the banks of the Thames, lent by a lord for the weekend, a red leather box lies open on the desk in the west wing.
At 6 pm, War Minister Hector Ravensworth opened the box to study Note 14: the date and route of the first nuclear warheads for the British army in West Germany. The cabinet decides tomorrow. The twelve sheets were out of order.
Commander Lev Sorin, assistant naval attachénaval attaché Navy officer posted to an embassy as military adviser to his country, following the naval affairs of the host nation. at the Soviet embassy, spent the night at the river cottage and left at 4 pm, protected by diplomatic immunity. The minister had the gates locked.
If Note 14 was photographed, it was someone in this house. Three people slept a few steps from that study.
Study in an English country house, 1962, at night, with a red dispatch box.
Suspects
Thaddeus AshgroveHigh-society osteopathosteopath Practitioner who treats back and joint pain by manipulating the body with the hands, without drugs or surgery. and portrait artist, who rents the river cottage, 49
Dulcie MarrableCabaret dancer and model, tenant of Thaddeus's flat in London, 20
Rodney TregarthPrivate secretary to the War Minister, 34
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