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Out of the Past (Paperback)

by Patricia Wentworth (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial; 2nd HarperPerennial Ed edition (Mar 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060923636
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060923631
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,471,403 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Daily Telegraph

Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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'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 )

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 )

'Miss Silver is marvellous' (Daily Mail )

'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' (The Scotsman )

'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' (Observer )

'. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery' (Alfred Hitchcock magazine ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Seaside country house party in the 1950s, 11 Jun 2006
By Michele L. Worley (Kingdom of the Mouse, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Out of the Past (Miss Silver Mystery) (Paperback)
Here we have one of the rare instances in which Maud Silver's favourite niece, Ethel Burkett, actually appears on stage; they're staying together at the seaside since Ethel has just recovered from a serious illness. Their hostess, Darsie Anning, has had a lot of trouble in her life, all of it stemming from getting involved with the wrong man: Alan Field. Not that he's the *right* man for anybody...

In keeping with the title, this book has a prologue set a couple of years before the main action begins in the first chapter. James Hardwick fell in love with Carmona Leigh at first sight on her 21st birthday, but through bad luck he couldn't wangle an introduction through her guardian that night before being posted to the Middle East. Her guardian, Colonel Trevor, disapproved of Alan Field, Carmona's would-be fiancee - good looks and the ability to charm women didn't cut any ice compared with Field having been kicked out of the Army. Nevertheless, when Hardwick returned, he learned that Carmona was to marry Field within a week - but she looked desperately unhappy.

But when the main action of the novel picks up at that point, we learn that Field literally jilted Carmona at the altar and left for South America (London was getting too hot to hold him anyway), so Carmona had married Hardwick on the rebound after a 3-month courtship. If you're thinking "AHA! Field was really murdered and somebody faked the trip!", well, join the club of People Conned by Wentworth. :)

In the present, Carmona's at her husband's place at Cliff Edge by the sea with Esther Field (Alan's soft-hearted stepmother who isn't soft-headed about him), Esther's old school friend, the formidable Lady Castleton; her own old friend, the party-girl Pippa Maybury; and the Trevors. James Hardwick is about to return from a business trip, so they're pretty well crammed to the rafters when an uninvited guest appears: Alan Field, who first has the nerve to try to stay with the Hardwicks, then in even worse taste goes to Darsie Anning, who has better reason than Carmona to resent him. Naturally, he's come to wangle some capital out of Esther for some get-rich-quick scheme, but he's done that once too often - and when she refuses, he tries his hand at blackmailing just about every member of the party. (Various confrontations with potential victims happen on-stage; Wentworth plays fair.) When he's found dead, the only surprises are that the murder weapon has disappeared, and that somebody didn't do it years ago.

All in all, good riddance; catching the killer is desirable mainly so that at least the innocent (well, innocent of this mess) don't suffer. Pippa Maybury, who was being blackmailed and panicked when she found the body, wants Maud Silver to clear it up quickly and quietly, rather than having a police investigation expose her particular guilty secret. One unusual feature of this case (given that it's a Silver investigation) are that the typical tangle of relationships between lovers and/or spouses are - or seem to be - much less emotionally charged on this occasion. But that might just be Wentworth's cunning, mightn't it? :)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic who-dun-it, excellent writing, 13 Jun 2003
By Irnbru4u "christian reader" (Redmond, WA United States) - See all my reviews
Personally I feel this is her best work. Romance (of course) brilliantly depicted, classic blackmail, Miss Silver, murder in a manor house by the sea wonderfully written. And a good unmasking of the murderer at the end what more could you possibly want? It is a good old fashioned 'clean' read.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Totally captivating, 22 May 2003
By Irnbru4u "christian reader" (Redmond, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Out of the Past (Miss Silver Mystery) (Paperback)
If you like a nice romance by-line (all her books usually have one) then you will love this, believable characters and good plot and excellent narrative make this her best work. Set on a house by the sea with deliciously bad and 'annoying' family thrown in, keeps you hooked from the 1st till last line. I hope you enjoy this wonderful book, as much as I did!
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