Word: manors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Symons' The Kentish Manor Murders (Viking; 191 pages; $15.95) is his third book starring the quirky Sheridan Haynes, an actor who, in portraying the Baker Street detective onstage, has developed an inflated sense of his celebrity and powers of deduction. The plot seems to have been inspired by the life of Howard Hughes: it involves both a plutocrat so reclusive that he is rumored to be dead and a daring literary forgery -- this time a "lost" Conan Doyle manuscript. Rendell has often said that she would prefer to concentrate on individual stories of twisted minds, but feels compelled...
Although the drug dealers have left Mayfair Mansions, most have merely moved next door to another housing project, called Paradise Manor. Residents there also requested help, and on Friday the Muslims went into the adjacent complex with a parade of several hundred people, including city officials and a brass band. As the Muslims marched into Paradise, Mayfair residents were pleased and thankful about the change in their community. Said Glenn French, Mayfair's property manager: "Something good has happened here...
...England, he and Sarah spend as much time as possible at Sydmonton, near the Watership Down country of Novelist Richard Adams, where his extensive holdings have made him the squire of two villages. The oldest part of his brick manor house dates back to the 16th century. Each July the estate serves as the site of Lloyd Webber's private Sydmonton Festival, where the composer tries out his works in progress before a specially invited audience. A connoisseur of old English religious architecture, Lloyd Webber often spends Sundays driving around with Sarah to visit churches...
...natural and unforced; the language of his characters hints at hidden poetry without breaking into showy lyricism or stage Irish: "Beyond the streaky window, the land opened out before us -- the wide, green fields of the midlands, the hills of Munster, a flashing glimpse of ruined keep, a manor house half hidden by plantation, the battered, roofless nave of a lost friary or monastery...
...show a flow of operatives between intelligence entitities and "the private sector." Lists of associates of Frank Nugan, scion of one of Australia's leading families, read like a Who's Who for the top reaches of the U.S. military. Admiral Earl Yates presided over Nugan Hand; General LeRoy Manor, former U.S. Government liason to Philippine President Macros, ran the Philippine Office; General Edwin F. Black, intimate of CIA bosses Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, ran the bank's Hawaii office...