The Gabriel Hounds - book club ed., 1967 Author:Mary Stewart They met in a street called Straight, and because they were young, impetuous and slightly spoiled, Charles and Christy Mansel decided to enliven their tour of the Middle East by calling on their Great-Aunt Harriet. This was not only breaking the family rule of non-interferernce, but also their Great-Aunt's ban on visitors, for the "Lady Harriet... more »," as she chose to call herself, was an eccentric recluse who lived in a crumbling Arabian Nights palace, Dar Ibrahim, in the High Lebanon . . .« less