<strong>Alice Bond</strong>is the only daughter of Henry Armitage Bond, the famous British archaeologist.  She spent her youth following her father to dig sites, museums and lecture halls around the world.<br/><br/>1917 saw him killed in an avalanche in Nepal.  Alice quickly found that - despite her quick wits, courage and lifetime of study under his genius - the chauvinist world of archaeology has been reluctant to accept her as his intellectual successor.  Now her inheritance is running out and she is desperate.<br/><br/>For the past two years she has been quietly completing his work in tracing a long-lost European tomb.  After a dozen fruitless trips to various spooky sites, she finds herself investigating an old forest the locals call "The Lost Wood"...<br/><br/>(http://www.studio-era.com/Images/1920_flapper_01.jpg)<br/><br/><em>Alice enters the forest looking less glamorous in a brown leather flying jacket, a shirt, and grey trousers tucked into a pair of battered hiking boots.  She has a rucksack full of kit and is armed with a Webley revolver.</em>