YOUR GUIDE TO NOT GETTING MURDERED IN AN ENGLISH COUNTRY MANOR HOUSE ‹ CrimeReads

If you hold these naïve views, you fundamentally misunderstand the manor house and its occupants.

The manor is not a house or a home; it is an extension of a biological line, a symbol of dynastic power. Now it stands-barely-a shell of its former glory. The manor is too expensive to maintain in the modern world, now that people are so fussy about "working conditions" and "salary." The poor aristocrat is a geode of privilege and anger-what you end up with if you compress all the entitlement and rage of collapsed empire into solid matter. They've had to sell the lesser Turners and the staff is down to eight. Most of the income is derived from tourists who have come to watch the manor crumble to dust.