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'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' -- Manchester Evening News 'Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything' -- Paula Gosling '...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery' -- Alfred Hitchcock magazine 'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' -- The Scotsman 'Miss Silver is marvellous' -- Daily Mail 'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' -- Observer
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'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' (Daily Telegraph )
'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' (Manchester Evening News )
'Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything' (Paula Gosling )
'...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery' (Alfred Hitchcock magazine )
'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' (The Scotsman )
'Miss Silver is marvellous' (Daily Mail )
'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' (Observer )
'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' (Manchester Evening News )
'Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything' (Paula Gosling )
'...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery' (Alfred Hitchcock magazine )
'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' (The Scotsman )
'Miss Silver is marvellous' (Daily Mail )
'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' (Observer )
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Format:Paperback
Thomasina Eliot, an old school friend, is virtually the only human contact Anna Ball has; Anna is nosy, and rather abrasive.
After receiving some of Anna's things for storage while she changed jobs (no forwarding address until Anna knew if it would work out), Thomasina is getting worried after the silence stretches to a few months. She feels responsible, since there's no one else to look out for Anna or care, and engages Miss Silver to trace her and find out if she's all right.
Miss Silver, through ingenuity and some social connections that the police didn't have, manages to extract some useful information from Miss Ball's last (hypocondriac) employer and her household, and with the help of Inspector Abbot, traces Anna to her last known address: a 'mother's help' at Deepe House, Deep End, Ledshire. Over Abbot's protests (Anna's predescessor drowned, Anna is missing) Miss Silver steps back into governess mode and goes undercover, taking the job at Deepe House. (The Craddocks, or really, Mr. Craddock, have tried to rename it Harmony, while establishing an arts/crafts colony, but the new name really didn't take.)
Reading the Miss Silver series, you might get a false impression that they're all similar; far from it. Each book does have at least one set of lovers who are in difficulties of some kind, and who revere her afterwards as a guardian angel (one view of her sitting room in this book stresses all the Victorian-framed photos of young couples and their children). They're generally similar enough in flavor that if you like one, you'll like them all; nice cozy English mysteries.
Seeing Miss Silver in the Craddock household is satisfying. Mr. Craddock, the stepfather, is a pompous fool full of high-flown theories about the right to do exactly what you want, and applying it to the kids (unless they get in the way). The kids actually behave like normal kids running wild, with a mother whose health is breaking down under stress, instead of being written as midget adults. Oh, and if you don't have a sense of humor about health food and 'tea' that tastes like hay, you may be offended by this book.
After receiving some of Anna's things for storage while she changed jobs (no forwarding address until Anna knew if it would work out), Thomasina is getting worried after the silence stretches to a few months. She feels responsible, since there's no one else to look out for Anna or care, and engages Miss Silver to trace her and find out if she's all right.
Miss Silver, through ingenuity and some social connections that the police didn't have, manages to extract some useful information from Miss Ball's last (hypocondriac) employer and her household, and with the help of Inspector Abbot, traces Anna to her last known address: a 'mother's help' at Deepe House, Deep End, Ledshire. Over Abbot's protests (Anna's predescessor drowned, Anna is missing) Miss Silver steps back into governess mode and goes undercover, taking the job at Deepe House. (The Craddocks, or really, Mr. Craddock, have tried to rename it Harmony, while establishing an arts/crafts colony, but the new name really didn't take.)
Reading the Miss Silver series, you might get a false impression that they're all similar; far from it. Each book does have at least one set of lovers who are in difficulties of some kind, and who revere her afterwards as a guardian angel (one view of her sitting room in this book stresses all the Victorian-framed photos of young couples and their children). They're generally similar enough in flavor that if you like one, you'll like them all; nice cozy English mysteries.
Seeing Miss Silver in the Craddock household is satisfying. Mr. Craddock, the stepfather, is a pompous fool full of high-flown theories about the right to do exactly what you want, and applying it to the kids (unless they get in the way). The kids actually behave like normal kids running wild, with a mother whose health is breaking down under stress, instead of being written as midget adults. Oh, and if you don't have a sense of humor about health food and 'tea' that tastes like hay, you may be offended by this book.
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Anna has stopped writing to Thomasina out of the blue and Thomasina is worried. She has inherited some money and having met Frank Abbot socially gets to hear about Miss Silver. She contacts her and explains what she knows about Anna. Her last known employment was as a mother's help with the Craddocks in a village called Deep End. Fortunately the Craddocks are currently looking for someone to fill the same position and Miss Silver decides to apply for the job to see if she can find out any more about what happened to Anna.
Miss Silver finds herself in an eccentric household and living in a bomb damaged big property called Deepe House. Mrs Craddock is a frail lady married to Peverill Craddock a larger than life character who tells her what to do and what to think and uses her as a skivvy while letting her three children run wild unless they interfere in his own pursuits. Miss Silver soon manages to get the children under control and meets Frank Abbot to update him on her progress - nearly becoming involved in a bank robbery in the process.
This is a complicated plot with some interesting characters and one of the most dangerous cases which Miss Silver gets embroiled in. It is far from clear to the reader what has happened to Anna until very close to the end of the story and any connection to the bank robbery seems obscure. This is an out of the ordinary crime story and one which I found most enjoyable as it shows Miss Silver at her unobtrusive best. Peverill Craddock is a marvellously pompous and bombastic character and I liked the two maiden ladies who are his devoted admirers. The book is as ever well written with some interesting observations on human nature and some excellent plotting.
Miss Silver finds herself in an eccentric household and living in a bomb damaged big property called Deepe House. Mrs Craddock is a frail lady married to Peverill Craddock a larger than life character who tells her what to do and what to think and uses her as a skivvy while letting her three children run wild unless they interfere in his own pursuits. Miss Silver soon manages to get the children under control and meets Frank Abbot to update him on her progress - nearly becoming involved in a bank robbery in the process.
This is a complicated plot with some interesting characters and one of the most dangerous cases which Miss Silver gets embroiled in. It is far from clear to the reader what has happened to Anna until very close to the end of the story and any connection to the bank robbery seems obscure. This is an out of the ordinary crime story and one which I found most enjoyable as it shows Miss Silver at her unobtrusive best. Peverill Craddock is a marvellously pompous and bombastic character and I liked the two maiden ladies who are his devoted admirers. The book is as ever well written with some interesting observations on human nature and some excellent plotting.
Format:Paperback
The mystery about Anna is that nobody seems to regret that she has disappeared. Yet there has to be somebody who is concerned, and concerned enough to persuade Miss Silver to assist in finding her. Thomasina is the concerned young woman, and Miss silver is so willing to help that she rolls up her sleeves and installs herself in a household as a childrens' governess - an occupation she abandoned twenty years earlier.
Half the book details the collection of clues and suspects, and then, when a local bank manager is shot during a robbery, suspense and danger are introduced.
Miss Wentworth, the most readable of authors, provides lovely narrative touches in the first half of the novel. As the end approaches, the requirements of a thriller finish take over.
Provided you don't apply too much analysis to plot and character motivation, you will enjoy this nice cosy entertainment.
Half the book details the collection of clues and suspects, and then, when a local bank manager is shot during a robbery, suspense and danger are introduced.
Miss Wentworth, the most readable of authors, provides lovely narrative touches in the first half of the novel. As the end approaches, the requirements of a thriller finish take over.
Provided you don't apply too much analysis to plot and character motivation, you will enjoy this nice cosy entertainment.
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