But his heart is really with the locked-room puzzle, the country manor, the gentleman detective.

Somehow, she had been expecting a simple country manor, not... this.

"People are calling to say, 'Maybe we won't do that English country manor after all.' "

Gabriel regarded the country manor with grudging admiration, especially in comparison to his own poor property.

His house would be homey but have a stateliness, as in smaller country manors.

Remember, many fine country manors have been converted into flats, often with luscious grounds and communal facilities.

Carefully sewn glass beads depict a formal garden outside a country manor.

More often, single wagons passed, with the take of some country manor.

It is set in a large, isolated country manor.

A Jacobean range was added in 1827, to convert it to a country manor.