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Richard Chandos, has recently married Leonie, the Grand Duchess of Riechtenburg and, together with their friend George Hanbury, they decide to return to Austria for a summer holiday. After two careless weeks relaxing at their hunting lodge, they receive a cryptic message warning them of danger. Never a pair to be thwarted by threats, Chandos and Hanbury set off to find out just what is going on in Leonie's homeland. As soon as they reach the border they find themselves entangled in a battle with royalty as well as with a particularly vicious thug - then Leonie disappears...