Chapter 11

Summary

• The chapter starts with main characters interrupting Huon Barratt's bath.
• Huon is about to go out to the Savoy’s American Bar and is discussing the lively mood in the city with the main characters, Sylvia and Gabe.
• During this conversation, Gabe and Sylvia inform Huon about the theft of the Medici Manuscript from the library. They ask him where he was on the previous night, since the manuscript was only known to exist by a few people.
• Huon denies involvement in the theft, but he is still considered a suspect because the people he visited the previous night can’t entirely confirm his alibi.
• Thereafter, Sylvia and Gabe spend the rest of the day visiting each bar and club on Huon’s alibi list.
• Gabe's friend Alex decides to protect Gabe at a pub in Clerkenwell, expressing worry at Gabe being unprotected, though Gabe insisted he would be safe.
• A character Juan from Catalonia identifies certain symbols in the stolen book from his home region. Another character, Stanley Greville, identifies one symbol to be the rod of Asclepius, a Greek symbol for medicine.
• Meanwhile, Daisy, a friend, arrives at Sylvia’s place. They discuss on Daisy’s encounter with Trevelyan another suspect, whom she'd gone to for taking her photographs for professional purposes.
• Daisy confesses that Lazarus Sidwell might have stolen the manuscript out of his love for preserving the history of his house.