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The Secret of the Tower

by Anthony Hope

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First published
1919
Pages
121
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Inkston offers Cynthia Walford a refuge after her engagement collapses just before the wedding. Her host, Doctor Mary Arkroyd, once worked as her visiting governess and now runs a medical practice near London. Mary answers Cynthia's distress with brisk advice and a walk across the heath. Their friendship introduces a village where old houses, new suburban developments and professional rivalries sit close together.

Anthony Hope's novel combines this social setting with a mystery that draws on Mary's powers of observation. In a later scene, while Cynthia and Captain Alec celebrate their attachment, Mary wakes with a sudden conviction that the word Morocco supplies a vital clue. The contrast between her professional excitement and the couple's happiness gives the dialogue its humor.

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Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope, born Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), was an English barrister who turned to fiction and found lasting fame with The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau. His invented kingdom of Ruritania gave a whole subgenre of romance its name.

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First published
1919
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
121
Language
English
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