1. Compare "The Adventures of the Speckled Band- and "The Affai
... of the wings the windows were broken, and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly caved in, a picture of ruin. The manor of Stoke Moran is the kind of place that a murder mystery is likely to take place. The more successful mystery authors like Arthur Conan-Doyle favour this type of setting (he used a large forbidding house' setting for other stories, such as "Hound of the Baskervilles-). While Stoke Moran is the typical setting of ... a murder mystery, victory ball is perhaps not so ominous but, a typical setting for a modern detective story. The Victory ball, is a masked...
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