Poison in the Pen (Coronet Books) [Paperback]

‘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 )

‘You can’t go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.’ (Observer )

‘Miss Silver is marvellous’ (Daily Mail )

‘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 Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot’

‘You can’t go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.’

'Miss Silver is marvellous'

Tilling Green was a charming little village nestling in the Ledshire countryside. Not at all the sort of place you would expect to find an anonymous letter writer. And when one of the recipients, a young woman, was found drowned in the lake belonging to the Manor House, Miss Silver was persuaded to go and investigate.



Valentine Grey, the pretty young heiress from the Manor House, was marrying one Gilbert Earle, but on the night of Valentine’s pre-wedding party Jason Leigh, Valentine’s former love, returned after months without a word. Valentine discovered Gilbert in a compromising situation with her guardian’s wife. And several people received extremely nasty letters. Connie Brooks knew who had written those letters. But on the same night, she was murdered . . .

Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime.