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The Case is Closed (Isis Mystery) [Large Print] (Paperback)

by Patricia Wentworth (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: ISIS Publishing; large type edition edition (1 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753176610
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753176610
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Hilary's Nightmare., 9 May 2002
By John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Case is Closed (Miss Silver Mysteries) (Paperback)
Miss Maud Hephzibah Silver made her first appearance in 1929, predating Agatha Christie's more famous Miss Marple. Thereafter her creator, Patricia Wentworth, spelled her until 1937, when she allowed her a second appearance, in this book, "The Case Is Closed". She featured in only six of the book's 36 chapters, but the author never again allowed her a holiday, employing her in all her subsequent mystery novels.

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.

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