Abbotsford House Abbotsford House Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. It is a Category A Listed Building. The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of , called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.e., muddy) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease (1811) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel. He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose
The House on the Roof "a Class A mystery, which is what we have learned to expect from Mrs. Eberhart." In his essay on LGBT coding in Eberhart's work, Rick Cypert argues that the character of Francis Maly is the most overtly sinister example of the effeminate characters favored by the author. The House on the Roof The House on the Roof is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published in the United States by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1935. Mary Monroe, an opera singer, is shot dead one evening in her penthouse apartment. Another tenant of the building,