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What golden rabbit, you say? Why, one like the pendant that Jack Hare, a character in Williams' 1979 fairy tale, had been commissioned by the Moon to carry to her lover, the Sun, but had dropped along the way. Williams, 35, spiced up his tale, and launched an international treasure hunt, by burying a genuine 18-karat Jack Hare pendant that he had crafted himself. Clues to the whereabouts of the jewelry, he announced, could be found in the text and pictures of Masquerade...
...pendant became the hare of the dogged, touching off an orgy of literary and literal digging. The Druid ruins at Stonehenge, a popular site for rabbit sleuths, were overrun by spades-people. For 18 months Thomas pondered the problem, buying three copies of Masquerade and throwing two away when his wife complained of puzzle-neglect. He made a breakthrough by linking the inscription under one picture, "One of Six to Eight," to Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Thomas also divined another key clue: a pictorial reference to the vernal equinox indicating an object...
...Cambridgeshire, 21 miles north of Ampthill Park, where Henry's abandoned Queen died in 1536. The castle, now a girls' school, yielded nothing. Then Thomas took a shrewd tack. He researched Williams' own background for links, figuring rightly that the author would have buried the pendant in a place he knew. Ultimately, however, success was due as much to luck as to deduction. Driving past Ampthill Park one afternoon, near a spot where Williams had once lived, Thomas let his dog out for a run. The dog gave him a leg up on his search by discovering...
...questions press conference the next afternoon. He praised the Italian police effort for its "speed and precision," then added, "When you are on the receiving end of prayers, you sure as hell can feel it." He also presented Judith with a belated Christmas gift: a gold chain with a pendant of the Lion of St. Mark, his headquarters emblem...
Within his text and pictures, Williams, 33, has secreted the location of a glittering jeweled pendant in the shape of Jack Hare, the book's central character. In Masquerade, the leaping hero takes a message from the moon to her beloved, the sun. For readers, the rabbit's message is a bit earthier: Williams fashioned the pendant of 18-karat gold. When he hid it last year, the hare was worth $10,000. Today it has doubled in value. "When I used to read stories about pirates, the pieces of eight became real gold buried in the ground...