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Latter End (Hardcover)

by Patricia Wentworth (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (25 Feb 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 072784430X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0727844309
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,644,407 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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‘I like Wentworth very much - she captures the mores of pre-war middle class England perfectly, and she writes rather better than Christie. They are romantic cosies, of course, but with an edge to them and an intelligence to the writing that has lasted.’

 

(Andrew Taylor )

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

'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' (Daily Telegraph )

'Miss Silver is marvellous' (Daily Mail ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Daily Telegraph

'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Drinking tea and watching at doors. , 12 Mar 2008
By John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Latter End (Miss Silver Mystery) (Paperback)
Patricia Wentworth (1878-1961) was a very prolific and very competent detective fiction practitioner. A slightly older contemporary of Agatha Christie, she brought out an elderly spinster detective sleuth, Maud Silver, a short time before the latter created Jane Marple. Both writers utilized a common formula: create a character whom everybody hates, have that character murdered in some ingenious way, then follow the investigations to the surpise ending. Dialogue forms most of the content (in order to mask the killer's identity) and most of the clumsy investigative spade work is done by unimaginative members of the police force.

"Latter End", published in 1947, is a typical example. Indeed, it uses the formula in its most basic form, for all the suspects are members of the one household. Miss Silver gets herself installed in the house and thereafter drinks tea, coughs discretely, interviews everyone, knits socks, and watches from her bedroom door at midnight.

These Miss Silver mysteries are immensely readable. You might complain that the final solution and the evidence finally discovered are barely credible, but you must admit you've had many hours of entertainment getting there.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars When you've run out of Miss Marple novels..., 24 Nov 2006
By Snapdragon (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Latter End (Miss Silver Mystery) (Paperback)
'Latter End' is a really great golden era murder mystery, and very similar to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels.

The plot is good, the psychology of the characters in explored and there is a wonderfully evil female victim!

This would definitely be well suited to an adaptation for cosy Sunday night TV.

Take it for what it is and enjoy!
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4.0 out of 5 stars NOT QUITE CHRISTIE BUT DEFINITELY WORTH READING, 3 Sep 2008
This review is from: Latter End (Miss Silver Mystery) (Paperback)
I have enjoyed most of the Wentworth detective novels and am very pleased to see them begin to be reprinted. This in my opinion is one of the best.Miss Silver is called in to investigate the demise of the very unpleasant Lois Latter. The suspects are centred around the family.
Highly recommened except the annoying Miss Silver "cough" which is mentioned frequently in all the novels!
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