Richard Dorrance

Artistocratic Thieves: a Gwenny and Roger June Novel (The Junes of Charleston) (Volume 1) Richard Dorrance

Roger June met Little Jinny Blistov when he climbed over the low wall of Jinny's ocean side patio, pulled open the sliding glass door, entered the living room, and pointed his gun at Jinny's face, saying, "You cheated my Auntie; prepare to die." He didn't shoot him, so a week later Jinny returned the favor by entering the fancy French restaurant where Roger and his wife, Gwenny, we eating langoustines in garlic sauce and drinking an expensive white burgundy. He said, "I have a proposition for you; prepare for excitement." Thus started a beautiful friendship, which in turn led to stealing antiques from the Hermitage Museum in Russia, and then to serious business back in Charleston with a man named Stirg, who thought stealing items of cultural heritage from his homeland was sacrilege.