Summers & Swan - A new book - Looking For Madeleine

[Mr Gray]

Anyone know how many books have ben sold?

[Alfred R Jones]

Anyone know how many books have ben sold?

Well I've bought it, so at least one.

[ferryman]

Well I've bought it, so at least one.

At the moment, I've (at least paid for) two.

I ordered it off Amazon and then spotted it in the shops and couldn't resist.

I'm hoping Amazon will give me a refund.  I snuk in just in time to cancel my order ...

[xtina]

I'm hoping Amazon will give me a refund.  I snuk in just in time to cancel my order ...


wise thinking ...a waste of money

[Luz]

So with the investigation shelved...who else was looking for maddie

Correction. The investigation was not shelved lato sensu, the Inquiry, which is the investigative part of an open criminal case, was archived, so time didn't keep running. As in every country, in Portugal there are timelines for certain crimes (statute of limitation), and when there is nothing to achieve, the best way to ensure those crimes can still be investigated is to archive them, in a legal sense, but not in a police sense. All clues, all information that arrived to PJ was being looked up and maintained in order to get new evidence that could re-open the PROCESS.

Sorry for being out of the topic.

[sadie]

I'm hoping Amazon will give me a refund.  I snuk in just in time to cancel my order ...


wise thinking ...a waste of money

Have you read it?

Or is that merely bile talking?

[stephen25000]

Have you read it?

Or is that merely bile talking?

What is the point of the book sadie ?

It is rehashing old information.

Nothing new.

Just lining the pockets of two amateurs.

[Anna]

Have you read it?
Or is that merely bile talking?

I doubt it.



I received it Saturday morning as a gift and read it the same day. I thought it gave an easy to follow story of how it all happened without going over the top.
We forget that not everyone knows as much of the details, in the Maddie Case as we may do, because of our research and the help of others on this forum. I think this book is a great starter.
 In fact many people I talk to, have no information at all on the case, except for press releases.
 I think and hope there will be a follow up book and look forward to it.

Edited for missed words

[Alfred R Jones]

It's fair to say that the S & S book wasn't written with manic obsessive McCann [ censored word ] pedants in mind, hence why it's such a disappointment in some quarters. 

[Benice]

It's fair to say that the S & S book wasn't written with manic obsessive McCann [ censored word ] pedants in mind, hence why it's such a disappointment in some quarters.

Indeed how remiss of Kate and Gerry not to take notes of street names or to keep a minute by minute log of every move they made - as you would when you were out searching for your child.  And why didn't they take their camera and take piccies of everywhere to prove they searched?     Although even photographic evidence wouldn't be enough for some folk - as apparently every photograph taken by the McCanns has been photoshopped.

IIRC Diane Webster was there when they left at dawn, and a GNR officer saw them while they were out.

[Alfred R Jones]

Indeed how remiss of Kate and Gerry not to take notes of street names or to keep a minute by minute log of every move they made - as you would when you were out searching for your child.  And why didn't they take their camera and take piccies of everywhere to prove they searched?     Although even photographic evidence wouldn't be enough for some folk - as apparently every photograph taken by the McCanns has been photoshopped.

IIRC Diane Webster was there when they left at dawn, and a GNR officer saw them while they were out.

The manic obsessive McCann [ censored word ] pedants wouldn't be happy with a book 1000 pages long, with a 1000 page appendix, if the eventual conclusion was that the McCanns didn't dunnit. 

[Miss Taken Identity]

It is such a shame that the Authors do not know what happened to little Maddie, what is the book about?
The Parents? how to spook  an abductor? how to catch a criminal?

I love music, I wonder what tune that band was playing on that wagon they jumped onto.

Little Maddie.... those heinous cretins cashing in on her demise. Quite sickening really!

Roobert murdoch cashing in keeping the  fantasy story going...

[xtina]

I doubt it.



I received it Saturday morning as a gift and read it the same day. I thought it gave an easy to follow story of how it all happened without going over the top.
We forget that not everyone knows as much of the details, in the Maddie Case as we may do, because of our research and the help of others on this forum. I think this book is a great starter.
 In fact many people I talk to, have no information at all on the case, except for press releases.
 I think and hope there will be a follow up book and look forward to it.

Edited for missed words

Who is it supposed to be directed at though.....its all been said before ...its nothing new ...to those who believe there was an abduction.....and IMO ...the public who don't know the basics ....its because either they are not interested ...or sick to death of the mccs.....

are they to keep the money they make from the book...probably so....so its a sure way of making a dollar or two....because you can bet your bottom dollar it will be only the mcc supporters who will be buying it ...well some ..Will

apparently they wasn't interested in the case as such....it was a comment made by there daughter ...asking how long they would look for her if she had been maddie....IMO ...the $...pinged in their eyes....after all writting books is there business ...there bread and butter.

[Anna]

Who is it supposed to be directed at though.....its all been said before ...its nothing new ...to those who believe there was an abduction.....and IMO ...the public who don't know the basics ....its because either they are not interested ...or sick to death of the mccs.....
are they to keep the money they make from the book...probably so....so its a sure way of making a dollar or two....because you can bet your bottom dollar it will be only the mcc supporters who will be buying it ...well some ..Will

apparently they wasn't interested in the case as such....it was a comment made by there daughter ...asking how long they would look for her if she had been maddie....IMO ...the $...pinged in their eyes....after all writting books is there business ...there bread and butter.

My Granddaughter for one is far too busy with 3 children and a fairly time consuming job, to wade through files. She enjoyed reading the book in bed.
I believe all proceeds from the Books that you mention, go to the madeleine fund and thereafter will go to finding Missing children. The money from libel cases go to the same place, but please correct me if you know otherwise

[xtina]

My Granddaughter for one is far too busy with 3 children and a fairly time consuming job, to wade through files. She enjoyed reading the book in bed.
I believe all proceeds from the Books that you mention, go to the madeleine fund and thereafter will go to finding Missing children. The money from libel cases go to the same place, but please correct me if you know otherwise

The thing here is though....you said in your earlier post ...its a story of how it happened .....and we don't know how it happened ...do we ...

we can only go from one story but there is  another ....your grandaughter is only seeing one side ...that IMO is not fair...G.A. book is also wrote from files yet no one in the UK can buy it as freely...even though it is not banned.