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On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming howard Charles II would prove notoriouslyLaura Cummings last book, The Vanishing Man, was a fascinating art history cum thriller about a lost Velzquez portrait, said Catherine Taylor in The Daily Telegraph. Her new one is also a detective story of sorts, but this time it centres on a 90 year family mystery. One autumn day in 1929, Cummings mother, Betty, then aged three, was abducted from a beach near her home in Lincolnshire. For five days, her parents, George and Veda, had no idea where