Summers & Swan - A new book - Looking For Madeleine

[Mr Gray]

So what.

I and other people said exactly the same.

So what's your point ?

I was answering your question...or have you forgotten

[sadie]

So you agree.

This book adds nothing new to the case.

It is  a case of two people cashing in on Madeleine's name to make money.

Hmmm, now let me see.......





Like Goncalo Amaral and Paulo Cristavao, do you mean?  %£&)**# 

They made mega bucks by cashing in on Madeleines name, didn't they?

[Alfred R Jones]

I said Summers hadn't interviewed the McCanns and I was right.

Anyway not to worry Alfred it seems Mr Summers book is not the roaring success both you and he expected it to be. There's far too much information on the internet about this case for the public to be fooled by his badly researched twaddle and it seems that they are voting with their wallets on this one.

Perhaps you could refer me to the post in which I claimed the book was going to be a roaring success or are you just making shit up again?  How you can decide that a book is a flop based on one day's sales beats me - another gross assumption on your part methinks!

[faithlilly]

Perhaps you could refer me to the post in which I claimed the book was going to be a roaring success or are you just making shit up again?  How you can decide that a book is a flop based on one day's sales beats me - another gross assumption on your part methinks!

You're getting tetchy again Alfred. Is it time to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire ?

Talking about feeling sleepy it seems to Summers, like Amaral, is under the misapprehension that Capol brings on sleep.  So much for his much-lauded in-depth research ! 

[stephen25000]

I was answering your question...or have you forgotten

 and ?

[Mr Gray]

You're getting tetchy again Alfred. Is it time to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire ?

Talking about feeling sleepy it seems to Summers, like Amaral, is under the misapprehension that Capol brings on sleep.  So much for his much-lauded in-depth research !

I would be surprised if you are right about the calpol

[Alfred R Jones]

You're getting tetchy again Alfred. Is it time to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire ?

Talking about feeling sleepy it seems to Summers, like Amaral, is under the misapprehension that Capol brings on sleep.  So much for his much-lauded in-depth research !

it's rather amusing how you always resort to a snide goad when unable to answer a question or provide evidence for your claims.   As for your second point, yes S & S have clearly given too much credence to Goncalo and hs fanclub's misinformation campaign regarding Calpol.  I'm sure there will be revisions in the paperback edition, so don't worry your spiteful little head about it.

[faithlilly]

it's rather amusing how you always resort to a snide goad when unable to answer a question or provide evidence for your claims.   As for your second point, yes S & S have clearly given too much credence to Goncalo and hs fanclub's misinformation campaign regarding Calpol.  I'm sure there will be revisions in the paperback edition, so don't worry your spiteful little head about it.

But surely if Mr Summers had researched this book as you and others have claimed he wouldn't have to change anything. After all it doesn't take a investigative journalist to find out Calpol has no sedative properties. Google and a free digit would do it.

[Mr Gray]

But surely if Mr Summers had researched this book as you and others have claimed he wouldn't have to change anything. After all it doesn't take a investigative journalist to find out Calpol has no sedative properties. Google and a free digit would do it.

could you copy and paste a quote confirming this

[Alfred R Jones]

But surely if Mr Summers had researched this book as you and others have claimed he wouldn't have to change anything. After all it doesn't take a investigative journalist to find out Calpol has no sedative properties. Google and a free digit would do it.

I have made no claims about the thoroughness or otherwise of Summers and Swan's reasearch - yet another incorrect assumption from you.  I have simply commented on your harsh criticism of a book that you hadn't even read yet.  It is not uncommon for even the best researched book to contain some errors which are subsequently corrected in later editions, perhaps you were unaware of this.

[a.baker]

I am currently reading the book and I have a question. Book states that Gerry left for his check at 9.05pm, just after Mat arrived back at the restaurant telling him all was quiet at 5A. Taking into consideration the timing of the walks to and from 5A,the time GM would have spent in the apartment,and the chat with Jez,what time would he have logically/likely have arrived back at the restaurant?

[a.baker]

Anyone??

[Alice Purjorick]

Anyone??

Some fell on stony ground others among the tares.
Well about a minute to walk to the flat (although Kate says somewhere it is only 30 seconds) and a minute back, about three to five minutes talking to Jez (Jez's rog. statement) and how long do you want to look around? 30 seconds is enough say a minute. So we have 1+1+3+1 = 6. or 1+1+5+1 = 8. Or knock off a minute on each if it really does take only 30 seconds a la Kate then use 30 seconds look see time for the minimum number. So minimum 4 1/2 minutes and maximum 8 minutes as reasonable limits. Over to you!
Have you come to the bit where the Aussie woman with the big yacht in Barcelona is being described as "remaining a person of interest to the inquiry". Whose/which inquiry is not defined however.

[a.baker]

Thank you Alice. I allowed one minute there and the same back. Three minutes in apt for GM to use toilet and have his fatherly moment gazing at Madeleine and the three? minutes speaking with Jez. So roughly 8 minutes which would have seen him sit back down at table around 9.13 at the earliest? I don't understand why Kate would then stand up around 12 minutes later at 9.25 ready to go and carry out a check (the one that MO did instead)? And with all the two-ing and fro-ing from the tapas group between 9 and 9.30, I really don't see how Madeleine could have been 'taken' unnoticed during this time.

[a.baker]

Perhaps not! According to the Tapas groups timeline,GM was witnessed by JT talking to Jez at 9.15pm. So,pretty much as soon as he returns to the restaurant,Kate stands up ready to do a check? Bizarre!