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Canon Story: The Sussex Vampire
Title: The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: G
Title: The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: G
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside – The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.
Watson remarked only the beauty of Mrs Ferguson, but I was again struck by the charms of an older goddess. Whatever the crimes of so many country residents, I have always been drawn to the chalk downs of Sussex, ever since the case of the Musgrave Ritual. Why travel to Peru or Tibet when one might find such peace there?