title: Palace Secret: A Tale of Love, Adventure and the Quest for the Secret Behind the Door (Valley of the Queen)
author:  William Diebold 
description: William Diebold spent two years and three months in Vietnam as a photographer from 1969 to 1971. Following that he attended and graduated from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and was hired by Leo Burnett Inc. upon graduation to manage a studio in Chicago. After one year he went out on his own eventually spending twenty-five years as an advertising photographer with studios in Chicago and Dallas. He was fortunate to enjoy success during those years with a client list that includes many major clients such as Kelloggs, Little Ceasars, Pillsbury, Bud Light, Sam Adams, Pepsi, etc. He was an advertising photographer in Chicago at a time during the 1980s when the industry was at the dawn of major changes brought on by the revolution of personal computers, digital media and the Internet. It was an exciting, portentous time and he still has the opinion that Chicago, the city and its wonderful people, is the best-kept secret in the country. He is currently retired from teaching (a career taken up after closing his studio), living in Southern California. As a father with two sons, a wonderful daughter, and two amazing grandchildren, he very much looks forward to what tomorrow may bring. His time is made up of working on his third book Haleran. His website can be found at http://www.debold.com. (Note the name difference.) There you will see some of his professional advertising work and many examples of his students work from his time teaching digital imaging classes. There is also a section of his photographs from when he was a photographer in Vietnam. He welcomes your comments. Please feel free to send him a note to wdiebold2102@roadrunner.com The website for his books Valley of the Queen and Palace Secret is at http://www.valleyofthequeen.com The cover photographs and graphics are by William Diebold  2018
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  Also available:
  The Secret Island
  The Secret of Spiggy Holes
  The Secret Forest
  The Secret of Moon Castle
  
   
  
  Contents
    1    A Fine Surprise
    2    Off to Baronia
    3    The Palace in Baronia
    4    An Exciting Trip
    5    Hot Weather!
    6    Killimooin Castle
    7    Blind Beowald, the Goatherd
    8    A Day in the Mountains
    9    Robbers!
  10    The Amazing Statue
  11    The Beginning of the Adventure
  12    The River in the Mountain
  13    In the Secret Forest
  14    Back to the Robber Camp
  15    A Way of Escape?
  16    The Terrible Storm
  17    A Journey up the Mountain River
  18    In the Cave of the Waterfall
  19    Beowald to the Rescue!
  20    The End of the Adventure
   
  Bonus Blyton
  Copyright
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  CHAPTER ONE
  A Fine Surprise
  THREE EXCITED boys stood on a station platform, waiting for a train to
  come in.
  ‘The train’s late,’ said Mike, impatiently. ‘Five minutes late already.’
  ‘I’m going to tell the girls the news,’ said Jack.
  ‘I’m