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|  | | The Auction at Primrose Cottage
Shortly after the painting of Primrose Cottage was sold at auction, it mysteriously disappears. At first, suspicion fell onto the owner herself, but the investigation proved that the painting was not insured and that she would subsequently not gain from its theft. Against the backdrop of art dealers and the Cornish countryside, can Pippa uncover what happened to ‘The Primrose Cottage’?
Primrose Cottage has stood on a gently sloping incline overlooking Polperro bay for almost 500 years. During that time, it has had many uses including a quarantine house, a smuggler’s hideout, and a WW2 lookout. Throughout most of its existence, it has been owned by the Trenowen family, and the current owner aims to keep it that way.
Recently though, due to lack of funds, Mrs Kathleen Trenowen has had to put up for auction, a rather important painting of hers. The painting is of the cottage itself, and many think that it’s not even a particularly good painting. It is, nevertheless i | |  | | The Poppy Smugglers
Pippa Welbury is intrigued after seeing a group of men land some illicit cargo on the coast just up from her home in the Cornish fishing village of Polperro
What’s in the smugglers’ stash? Should she report it to the authorities? What's with the poppies anyway?
After seeing a group of men land some illicit cargo on the coast just up from her home in the Cornish fishing village of Polperro, she gets drawn into this historic Cornish pass-time.
The smuggling intrigues her further as she begins to ask around the village about Polperro’s historic ties to the activity, and seems to come up with... nothing.
To add to her overactive imagination, whilst out walking with Benjamin, her faithful dog, she spots a vase containing a bunch of Poppies in the window of a lighthouse; fresh poppies in a supposedly disused lighthouse! Who would place f |
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