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1. A white-walled convent, dozing under the hot Pyrenees sun; a young man with three chestnut horses; a fair, grey-eyed young woman, framed in a farmhouse door - which Mary Stewart novel are these images from?
2. This Mary Stewart novel seems to be full of cars and driving - a tense chase from Avignon to Marseilles; a hunt through the maze of the city streets; a Bond-esque struggle in a speeding car with the villain clinging to the side. Which early novel is this?
3. A vast and crumbing ancient palace overlooking a Lebanese gorge; two grey Arab hounds, running with a rider in a white burnoose; the picture of a red dog, painted on a tree in a field of sunflowers. Which of Mary Stewart's novels do these images come from?
4. A Greek theatre in the moonlight, where the sounds of ancient poetry - and of modern plans - travel to the ears of hidden listeners; a cave on Parnassus, where guns and gold are concealed, and, in a secret green grotto, there stands a much older treasure. From which Mary Stewart novel do these images come?
5. The main impressions I carry away from this novel are of mist and mountains; there is a great scene where the heroine hides in the mist while the murderer searches for her. Another scene that stays in my mind is of the heroine in a locked room, guarding the unconscious girl who holds the secret of the murderer's name. "Ever so gently, the door-handle turned. Ever so softly, the door rattled as somebody pressed against it..." What novel am I thinking of?
6. This novel, set in an elegant chateau in the Savoy region of France, left me with images of a small boy in peril: laughing on a mountain path in red hat and mittens, only to be narrowly missed by a bullet; clinging to the edge of a balcony, as the balustrade crashes to the stone terrace thirty feet below; poisoned chocolate in a blue beaker. What novel is this?
7. The snowy peaks of Albania to the north; an old actor gallantly quoting from "The Tempest"; and, of course, the dolphin. Which Mary Stewart novel are these images from?
8. Only one image stays in my mind from this novel, but it's a good one. I'll give it to you in Mary Stewart's own words:
"And in the high Alpine meadow, with only me for audience, old Piebald settled his hind hoofs, arched his crest and tail, and, lame forefoot clear of the ground, lifted into and held the same royal and beautiful levade."
What novel is this from?
9. A motif that runs through this novel is that of stone - rocks, caves, standing stones. There are standing stones in Brittany and England, and a very special cave in Wales. Which novel am I thinking of?
10. An injured man, hiding in a shepherd's hut; a man in Cretan dress, searching the hillsides with a rifle; a bloodstained rope abandoned in a windmill. In which novel will you find these images?
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