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The Gabriel Hounds (Mass Market Paperback)

by Mary Stewart (Author)
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"Don't wait for a rainy day to curl up with a book by Mary Stewart." (Sandra Brown )

"One of the modern masters in the suspense field." (Chattanooga Times )

"An author skilled at blending suspense with drama and romance." (Columbus Dispatch )

"Mary Stewart is magic." (New York Times )

"I cannot think of anyone who tells such stories quite so well." (New York Times )

"A master craftsman." (Richmond News Leader )

"Mary Stewart's suspense novels are as riveting today as when first written...Sheer delight then, sheer delight now." (Carolyn Hart )

"The pull of the Stewart narrative spell is powerful." (Buffalo Evening News )

"Nobody does it better." (Elizabeth Noble )

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It's all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet—despite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim—"Lady Harriet's" ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanon—where a physician is always in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old woman's every need.

But there is a very good—very sinister—reason why guests are not welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it may prove even harder still to escape . . .


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4.0 out of 5 stars Stewart's take on Hester Stanhope, Jul 22 2009
By Misfit (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Second cousins Christy and Charles Mansel, while on separate holidays, bump into each other on a street called Straight in Damascus. With the devil may care attitude of the wealthy and privileged, the two decide to look up Great Aunt Harriet, an infamous recluse holed up in her palace in the mountains outside of Beirut. Christy gets there first and after literally barging her way in soon finds herself in the midst of a seriously creepy palace right out of the Arabian Nights peopled with insolent servants, crumbling plaster, leaking roofs as well as the hounds who prowl the grounds at night like the spectral Gabriel hounds of the otherworld.

And that is really about all of the plot I am willing to give away - any more and I'd ruin it for you. Suffice it to say that Christy and Charles soon find themselves in the thick of things as they try to unravel the mystery surrounding their reclusive Aunt Harriet and the servants determined to keep her away from all visitors. I loved loved loved the way Stewart set the scenes, particularly the very spooky palace with the secret staircases, hidden doorways, crumbling plaster, a rusty nail breaking the silence as it falls, all topped off with a fabulous nail biting finish as the island in the midst of the Seraglio (harem) becomes the author's own take on Noah's Ark during a sinking ship. Despite being a bit too wealthy and spoiled, the banter between Christy and Charles was fun and refreshing and added the perfect zest to your basic heroine in peril needing to be rescued by the hero. Four stars.
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