Spotlight on Lee Falk - The Summer House

History

In the late 1950s, Falk rented Edmund Duffy's summer place atop Baldy Hill in Truro. And in 1961 he purchased Duffy's cottage at South Pamet Road, remodeled it and had a tennis court built on the property. He named the summer house Xanadu.

Behind the scenes

Several times Lee Falk used names for places from around his summer house as names and addresses in Mandrake stories. In some stories it almost looks like Mandrake's Xanadu are localized at South Pamet Road.

Appearances of Pamet and other Truro names in Mandrake stories

Title	Writer	Artist	Comments
"The Clay Camel (plus Women's Lib!)"	Falk	Fredericks	Pamet Warehouse and Depot Road
"The Rogues"	Falk	Fredericks	Collins rd at Pamet
"Trail of the Pusher"	Falk	Fredericks	12-A Pamet street and 10 Dopott road five minutes north at Collins
"Dr Xoz Prof. of Smells"	Falk	Fredericks	27 North Pamet
"The Thieves"	Falk	Fredericks	SS Royal Pamet