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|title=The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

|sort=Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery, The

|publisher=Viking/Penguin

|date=November 2012

|summary=In 1940 John, 9th Duke of Rutland, died in a cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his family home, Belvoir Castle. What family secrets had he spent his last weeks trying to conceal? The author has unravelled a fascinating tale of mystery and deception.

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Like many an enthralling novel, this book starts with a death from natural causes yet in odd circumstances which initially leaves several questions unanswered. In fact, in spite of the subtitle, and also knowing nothing about the family whose story it tells in part, I had to look through the book thoroughly before reading, to satisfy myself that it actually was non-fiction.