Semi-detached

Tom lives in a semi-detached house.

Tom and Mary live in a semi-detached house.

Tom's semi-detached neighbours are lovely.

Tom's semi-detached neighbours are horrible.

In the smaller plans of a "Mansionette near Wimbledon Park," "Semi-detached Houses," and "The Compact House built near Blackheath," we are not favoured with any scale.

The murderer should be a little man of the professional class — a dentist or a solicitor, say — living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs, and preferably in a semi-detached house, which will allow the neighbours to hear suspicious sounds through the wall.