In a novel set in this [emphasize] county, the Croatian girl Lux is paid to impersonate Art’s girlfriend Charlotte during his family’s Christmas celebration. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this English ceremonial county, the setting of Winter from Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet. In a different novel, a band of “Wreckers” in this county trick a ship into running aground and murder its crew.
ANSWER: Cornwall [or Kernow]
[10m] This author of Jamaica Inn opened a different novel, “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,” referring to the Cornwall estate owned by Maxim de Winter.
ANSWER: Daphne du Maurier (The novel is Rebecca.)
[10e] This character travels to Cornwall with Dr. Watson in “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot.” This detective identifies a snake as the title “Speckled Band” in a locked-room mystery written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
ANSWER: Sherlock Holmes [or Sherlock Holmes]
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