These three mysteries are based on personal travels to the towns and locales described. A few minor liberties have been taken - especially with respect to the other characters in each story. In some cases reference is made to the state of the cities many years ago. Modernization has invariably taken place but the mysteries are as relevant today as they would have been decades ago. I love to travel and am only missing Antarctica in the continents still untouched. All places have stories to tell, secrets to reveal, and mysteries to unravel. One just has to think hard, outside one's own experiences, to wonder what else might have happened in the same place at a different time. It's like walking down the streets of London in the footsteps of hundreds of thousands of souls who have trodden the same pathways. Were all of them innocent, behaving themselves, with no secrets, no mischievous thoughts in mind? Of course not. Many were hatching or carrying out evil plots. In fact I think some of them must have traveled to the lands in this book, and be influencing the tourists who come there. What do you think....?