The Pearl Device (The Footnote Mysteries)

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Geneva, 2026. In a reading room, retired teacher Martha Bancroft finds the gap before the crime: footnote 12, removed from a federal inquiry into a 1991–92 financial scandal. The researcher who flagged it, Werner Hügli, is dead, and a sealed deposit box waits in a Nyon bank. With archivist Annie Lippincott, Martha reads her way through Bern, Geneva, and Lausanne after the missing pages.