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Absolute Discretion by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reader Reviews Origin of the book is a country house that really exists, May 2, 1998 Reviewer: An Amazon.com Customer A great house lies at the heart of many stories: the names of Tara, Pemberley, Baskerville Hall amng many others spring readily to mind. So it is here. But Langston Park House may be different from others, in that it exists - although that is not its real name. Indeed, the first sight of the building, at the end of a drive long and shady enough to prevent anyone on the nearest minor road seeing even a trace of it, was what prompted "Absolute Discretion" in the first place. Parts of the house's history, and echoes of some of its former inhabitants, also found their way into the narrative. And while this is certainly fiction not faction, there is no reason to suppose that the English countryside did not - and does not - hide as many secrets as are prised out of their hiding places in this case. It was, after all, no less an authority than Sherlock Holmes who said of country houses that "the only thought that comes to me is a feeling of isolation, and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there".
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