The climb

A mystery stories

Summary
Costas lives on an island near Greece , he loves climbing but he has never climbed Eagle’s Rock one of the moste dangerous cliff.
One day, a strange man called Holland arrives on an island. He is to do a secret job for a men Mr Vitalis. Holland is to stay at a small holiday villa owned by
Mr Kazakou the father of Costas.
Mr Holland arrives at Mr Kazakou’s villa. He introduces himself as a writer who is to stay there for fifteen days. Yet
Costas feels that Mr Holland looks particularly familiar to him. One day , costas was in the father’s shop (library), he saw a man at the café opposite the shop who is no other than Mr Holland. They have a drink and talk for a while. Mr Vitalis goes away leaving his newspaper behind. Mr Holland take the newspaper and leaves. In
Chapter 4, Costas day-dreams of climbing Eagle’s Rock when he notices that Mr Holland is looking at the steep cliff through his binoculars and especially at Mr Vitalis’s house. Costas tells Eleni what he saw as they look at some books on climbing. Suddenly Costas realises why Mr
Holland looked so familiar: he is no other than the very writer of his books, David Ashken, the famous climber who had a terrible accident in Austria and was now too frightened to keep climbing. Costas second-guesses that
Ashken is the only man who could possibly climb up and break into Mr Vitalis’s house, and steal the paintings. But he couldn’t allow this because Eagle’s Rock was his!
Chapters 5–6: In Chapter 5, Ashken is in two minds.
He is to steal the paintings – not for himself, but for Mr
Vitalis! Months ago, he met Mr Vitalis in London when he was working as a bar tender. Mr Vitalis recognised him and wanted to set up an insurance fraud together with Ashken. David was the only man who could climb up Eagle’s Rock, burgle into his house and steal the paintings. Then Mr Vitalis could get the insurance money and re-sell the paintings as well. This