The Property of a Gentleman (1974)

by Catherine Gaskin

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Set in the Lake District, the story revolves around Joanna Roswell, who arrives from a famous London auction house to examine the contents of Thirlbeck, the remote and ancient seat of the Earls of Askew. There are other secrets in the great house and Joanna finds herself drawn into them.

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Couldn't get into this. I gave up a quarter of the way through. Something I rarely do. (

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CarolPreston | Apr 25, 2016 |

Joanna Roswell, an antique dealer, goes to Thirlbeck with her mentor to see the treasures housed there and owned by the 18th Earl of Askew. But there are dark secrets of the past from the last three centuries that they also find.

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Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1974 v04 by Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Collision • Wild Goose, Brother Goose • The Property of a Gentleman • I Can Jump Puddles • Go in and Sink! by Reader's Digest

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About half of the ninety-three passengers, those in the tail section, of the flight out of Zurich bound for Paris and London survived when the plane ploughed into a mountainside shortly after take-off.

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Set in the Lake District, the story revolves around Joanna Roswell, who arrives from a famous London auction house to examine the contents of Thirlbeck, the remote and ancient seat of the Earls of Askew. There are other secrets in the great house and Joanna finds herself drawn into them.

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There were treasures at Thirlbeck, homeof the 18th Earl of Askew. Treasures beyond one's wildest dreams. Then lovely young antique dealer Joanna Roswell and her mentor pay a visit to Thirlbeck, and are confronted not only with rare splendors of the past, but with the shadow that has darkened Thirlbeck for more than three centuries.

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