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'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.' (The Observer )
'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' (Manchester Evening News )
'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' (Daily Telegraph )
'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' (Scotsman )
'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' (Manchester Evening News )
'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' (Daily Telegraph )
'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' (Scotsman )
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'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.' -- The Observer 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' -- Manchester Evening News 'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' -- Scotsman
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Frank Abbott first meets Jonathan Field when his friend Anthony Hallam invites him to a dance. Little does he think at the time that he will shortly be investigating his host's murder. Jonathan is shot in his study and it seems that most of his household have a motive for doing the deed. To Frank this seems like a case where his friend Miss Maudie Silver may be able to find out more information on an unofficial basis than he can by asking searching questions.
This is a fascinating plot with some intriguing characters and a complex web of motives and relationships. As ever Miss Silver is a fascinating personality who considers trifling snippets of information which others might ignore and therefore usually comes up with the correct answer before anyone else.
I think books like this make a refreshing change from the crime novels of today with their graphic violence. Motives and behaviour are every bit as dark and convoluted and people are just as nasty but the books do not rely on these aspects for their appeal. Well worth reading if you have not tried Patricia Wentworth before.
This is a fascinating plot with some intriguing characters and a complex web of motives and relationships. As ever Miss Silver is a fascinating personality who considers trifling snippets of information which others might ignore and therefore usually comes up with the correct answer before anyone else.
I think books like this make a refreshing change from the crime novels of today with their graphic violence. Motives and behaviour are every bit as dark and convoluted and people are just as nasty but the books do not rely on these aspects for their appeal. Well worth reading if you have not tried Patricia Wentworth before.
Format:Paperback
I found this a gripping read. To get on with this book, you have to accept a world where young girls don't go out to work, everyone dresses for dinner, and there are a few titled characters about. This done, this book held the attention throughout.
Everything is hunky-dory in Field House with the niece in pole position to inherit everything until a young cousin arrives and the elderly uncle goes silly about her. Family solicitors become involved. There is much eavesdropping of phone calls (remember the old party lines?)
Then there is the fingerprint collection... I shall say no more.
Everything is hunky-dory in Field House with the niece in pole position to inherit everything until a young cousin arrives and the elderly uncle goes silly about her. Family solicitors become involved. There is much eavesdropping of phone calls (remember the old party lines?)
Then there is the fingerprint collection... I shall say no more.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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As a long-time fan of the Miss Silver mysteries I was delighted to be able to get a copy of one of my favourite titles. What a pleasure to read about an intelligent, moral and shrewd woman making her own way in the world at a time when so many women were simply adjuncts to men.
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