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The Paradise Mystery
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Excerpt:'American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed by tall elms and giant beeches, rises the vast fabric of the thirteenth-century Cathedral, its high spire piercing the skies in which rooks are for ever circling and calling. The time-worn stone, at a little distance delicate as lacework, is transformed at different hours of the day into shifting shades of colour, varying from grey to purple: the massiveness of the great nave and transepts contrasts impressively with the gradual tapering of the spire, rising so high above turret and clerestory that it at last becomes a mere line against the ether.'
- Subjects :
- Murder--Fiction
Guardian and ward--Fiction
Detective and mystery stories
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- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9783965373952
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- The Paradise Mystery
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 2171255