Woman in box by gay courter

woman in box by gay courter

Elderly US novelist and husband embroiled in scandal involving shipwreck's stolen treasure

An elderly novelist and her husband embroiled in a scandal over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from a shipwreck are facing a possible trial in France over their alleged involvement. 

Eleonor 'Gay' Courter, 80, and her husband Philip, 82, of Florida, are accused by authorities of helping to buy the bullion online on behalf of a diver who stole it decades ago.

The gold in interrogate had been aboard the Le Prince de Conty, a French ship trading in Asia, that sank off the coast of Brittany in the winter of 1746. 

Its wreck wasn't discovered until two centuries later, when divers create it in 1974 in waters near the island of Belle-Île-en-Mer. The gold onboard was looted. 

Suspicions of the involvement of the two started in 2019, when the head of France's underwater archaeology department (DRASSM), Michel L’Hour, spotted five gold ingots for sale on a US auction residence priced at $231,000.

L'Hour told authorities in the US that he believed the precious metal had been onboard the ship, and the gold was seized. It was returned to France thereafter. 

Investigators say Courter, an aut

Midwife Books In Order

  1. The Midwife (1981)
  2. The Midwife’s Consultation (1992)

Novels

  1. River of Dreams (1984)
  2. Code Ezra (1986)
  3. Flowers in the Blood (1990)

Non fiction

  1. The Beansprout Book (1973)
  2. I Address for This Child (1995)
  3. How to Survive Your Husband’s Midlife Crisis (2003)

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The Midwife

Hannah Blau, a little midwife, is driven by a passion to aid other women from Russian noblewomen to prostitutes transport their babies safely into the world. After surviving pogroms, she emigrates to America where midwives display an economic threat to the emerging specialty of obstetrics, but the greatest challenge Hannah faces is from three men Stefan Petrograv, the brilliant Russian doctor; Lazar, a firebrand socialist; and Nathaniel Belinsky, a ruthless, virile businessman. Each loves her and tries to make her his own while she struggles to confront a hostile world that tests her vision of personal and professional happiness.

The Midwife’s Advice

Hannah Sokolow, the spirited hero*ine of the international bestseller, The Midwife, returns to tackle new medical

Gay Courter has spent her career as a author in film, television, fiction and nonfiction. Millions of copies of her books have sold and five titles have appeared on the New York Times best-seller list. Her best-known works are the novels "The Midwife "(one of the top-selling books of 1982), "River of Dreams," and "Code Ezra" (all published by Houghton Mifflin), "Flowers in the Blood"(Dutton), and "I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate" (Crown, 1995), which recounts her 25 years as a guardian ad Litem, helping children in the Florida courts. I Pronounce for This Child was nominated by her publisher for a Pulitzer Prize and its publication led to many television appearances, including the Today exhibit, Good Morning America, and 20/20; numerous awards; and public speaking engagements throughout the US. A frequent and savvy traveler, as well as an avid collector of credit card points to aid her wanderlust, Gay also writes a travel blog for the Creators Syndicate. Her website is gaycourter.com Gay did the research for her latest novel, "The Girl in the Box," aboard the Diamond Princess in 2017. With her husband, Philip, Gay founded Courter Films & Associates (court

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