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1937: Professor Morley’s guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric locals – and murder!
The Norfolk Mystery
What you need to know before your trail
In The Norfolk Mystery, the first in the County Guides series, we meet Swanton Morley. Eccentric, Morley plans to write a series of guides to the counties of England and so employs an assistant, Stephen Sefton, who is also a veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
Their journeys around Norfolk, what starts as a sightseeing tour quickly turns into a murder investigation.
Travel Guide
These are excellent books for a good story that you can really use as informal guides to the places they are set! 1930’s England is beautifully evoked.
‘Every county is a crime scene’
The setting is Norfolk as a whole – a character in itself!
Blakeney
A church in Blakeney coastal village- where a vicar is found hanging from the church bellrope. Now the village is a nice place to visit and there is a church but it’s not based on a real place!
“We arrived at the old seaport of Blakeney, the song of the thrush preceeding us” “Blackeney – the Florence of East Anglia”
Swanton Morley
The character Swanton Morley, is named after a Norfolk village. It would be fun to go here and just see the character personified in the place itself!
Morley lives in Norfolk, in a house called St George’s –to represent England as a whole.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Norfolk Mystery
Author/Guide: Ian Sansom Destination: Norfolk Departure Time:1930s
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