It’s amazing where the flames of inspiration come from.
I got my latest spark from a book I picked up…somewhere…I don’t even remember where.
I loved title as it was all about a bookstore and Paris. Two of my favorite subjects. How could I resist?
And there it was.
An unused First Class boarding pass on Qatar Airways for a flight from Doha Qatar to Columbo Siri Lanka, dated October 2015, tucked into page 13. With what appears to be a small blood stain in the upper right hand corner, and words that translated from Briton reads: “dirty martini to room 138”.
WOW.
I Googled the passenger’s name, came up empty handed. Googled the Flight number and found it’s a daily round trip route from Qatar still being run to this day. Flight history says that for the date listed on the boarding pass, it’s arrival was 15 minutes late.
