... 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 ... and therefore become someone that the reader can relate to. Both of the sidekicks have inexperience and are not collective thinkers in comp...

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