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'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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The evidence against Geoffrey Grey is convincing but his wife believes in his innocence. And so does her young cousin, Hilary, who decides to solve the mystery herself.
But when Hilary herself is nearly murdered she turns in desperation to her ex-fiance for help. He calls upon the services of Miss Silver to help solve another mystery, which she does in her own original style.
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Patricia Wentworth depicts her Miss Silver with a comic touch. The retired governess - with her polite cough, her occasional exclamation of "Dear Me!", her propensity to quote the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, her knitting of baby clothes while conducting a consultation, her hen-like manner of running, and her quaint taste in clothing - is delineated with sure satirical skill. There is never a touch of wit or satire in the presentation of any other character in this novel, however. The earnest, the threatening, the tortured, the traumatized - the other characters seem to belong in the world of nightmares.
Indeed, much of the atmosphere here has the attributes of a nightmare. Hilary, the heroine convinced that her cousin's husband has been wrongly convicted of his uncle's murder, seems to be living a nightmare. In strange, eerie ways she chances upon clues, and she seems to be relentlessly pursued by a monster of evil. Attempts to escape one threat land her in an even worse one. Dimensions have a nightmarish quality too. Happening to be in Glasgow, Hilary is somehow able to perceive the face of a character whose whereabouts she did not know at the fifth floor window of a large block of tenements. She can see, moreover, an expression of anguish and terror on the face. She feels impelled to climb the many flights of evil-smelling stairs to rescue, aid, question and investigate. Of course, a near death experience awaits her. These are absurd coincidences and impossibilities yet all are true to a nightmare mode.
I hope this review might give an outline of the kind of reading experience this novel provides. Interested browsers are advised that Patricia Wentworth wrote dozens of Miss Silver mysteries.
Patricia Wentworth depicts her Miss Silver with a comic touch. The retired governess - with her polite cough, her occasional exclamation of "Dear Me!", her propensity to quote the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, her knitting of baby clothes while conducting a consultation, her hen-like manner of running, and her quaint taste in clothing - is delineated with sure satirical skill. There is never a touch of wit or satire in the presentation of any other character in this novel, however. The earnest, the threatening, the tortured, the traumatized - the other characters seem to belong in the world of nightmares.
Indeed, much of the atmosphere here has the attributes of a nightmare. Hilary, the heroine convinced that her cousin's husband has been wrongly convicted of his uncle's murder seems to be living a nightmare. In strange, eerie ways she chances upon clues, and she seems to be relentlessly pursued by a monster of evil. Attempts to escape one threat land her in an even worse one. Dimensions have a nightmarish quality too. Happening to be in Glasgow, Hilary is somehow able to perceive the face of a character whose whereabouts she did not know at the fifth floor window of a large block of tenements. She can see, moreover, an expression of anguish and terror on the face. She feels impelled to climb the many flights of evil-smelling stairs to rescue, aid, question and investigate. Of course, a near death experience awaits her. These are absurd coincidences and impossibilities yet all are true to a nightmare mode...Patricia Wentworth wrote dozens of Miss Silver mysteries.
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