   Do you know this short story?
  Ok, I once read a short story in High School some years ago and I would love to find out the name of it since I can't remember what it's called anymore. It goes like this:* Setting is possibly the English countryside in summer/spring, possibly post WWII (The husband may be an airman?). * A man and his wife go to a rural cottage/house/farmhouse to view it for the purposes of buying it to live there. * The house may be overgrown with vines* There may be a third person conducting a tour of the house. * While the viewing is underway, either the wife or the husband disappears.* Searches for the missing person are fruitless, and help is sent for at a nearby farm. Hope someone can help me here!   
  Anyone?!   ;  Have you any idea how old this story is?   ;  Is that all that you remember?  I only ask because that sounds entirely uninteresting, and I'm curious as to why it would stick in your mind if it were entirely uninteresting.   ;Quote:Original post by voodoo_johnOk, I once read a short story in High School some years ago and I would love to find out the name of it since I can't remember what it's called anymore. It goes like this:* Setting is possibly the English countryside in summer/spring, possibly post WWII (The husband may be an airman?). * A man and his wife go to a rural cottage/house/farmhouse to view it for the purposes of buying it to live there. * The house may be overgrown with vines* There may be a third person conducting a tour of the house. * While the viewing is underway, either the wife or the husband disappears.* Searches for the missing person are fruitless, and help is sent for at a nearby farm. Hope someone can help me here!Lets nail down things you are certain about.-A man and his wife-Rural home-Someone disappears.-Nobody can find them.That's really quite vague and I'd be impressed if anyone can figure it out.  Any other details like why you were reading it in class(perhaps reading authors from the mid 1800's, for example) or what anthology it came from?   ;  Is there any possibility that it was a Sherlock Holmes short story? There are several plotlines where Holmes travels to homes in the English countryside on account of someone's disappearance. (Holmes is, however, not married.)   ;  I was last in highschool 10 years ago so no, I don't remember much else about the specifics of the story other than what I've posted. And the Scottish curriculum system back then wasn't/isn't that organized - you'll quite often be given photocopies of stories from books and will discuss them based on technique, i.e. we wouldn't have a set of classes on authors from the 1800's.It's bound to souond uninteresting if I recount the major plot elements bit by bit, that's why people read stories rather than have other people summarise them... Uninteresting as it may sound, it had the most amazing sense of dread. To narrow it down further I'm sure the story is from the mid 1950's based on what I remember of the narrative style. I'm quite familiar with Conan-Doyle's works and it was definately not a Sherlock Holmes story. It's a hard task I know, but I thought I would increase my chances by throwing it to the Internet Hordes!   ;  Have you asked a librarian? It's like their job to know all of this stuff isn't it?   