[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[ANDREW BARTON]

"Dorian E. Gray" :
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> Unfortunately, Ms. Flynn never visited Ireland, and made a really jarring 
setting error.  At one point, an address is given as "1237 Sackett. On the 
corner of Sackett and Garrity".  No-one in Ireland *ever* leaves off the 
"Street" (or "Road", "Avenue", whatever).  And house numbers rarely get into 
the hundreds, let alone the thousands. <
   
  There's a similar error in the computer game 'Ravenhearst'.  Ravenhearst Manor was supposedly built in England early in the last century.  The style of the building is generally acceptable but the house number is '7217' - impossible!
   
  Then there was the SF mystery novel supposedly set in Oxford University, but an Oxford with no colleges, where the hero casually takes a taxi to London.
   
  Andrew