Miss Silver Series by Wentworth, Patricia
Miss Silver #4
Danger Point
Wentworth, Patricia
This is one of some 30 Miss Silver mysteries which Patricia Wentworth wrote during her lifetime. It concerns money motivated marriages and has a complex plot, full of suspense. The author has a large and devoted readership in both Britain and America.
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Miss Silver #8
The Key
Wentworth, Patricia
Michael Harsch's long years of work were nearly at an end. The following day he was looking forward to handing over his precious formula to the government. But the next morning he was in no fit state to hand over the formula - he was dead. It looked like suicide, but Miss Silver knew it was murder.
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Miss Silver #9
She Came Back
Wentworth, Patricia
Assumed dead, Lady Anne Jocelyn meets varying degrees of welcome when she returns from Occupied France to her old life in England. Though her husband Sir Philip is not overjoyed to see her, he agrees to a trial reunion. But a murder raises his doubts, and then a second and third send Miss Silver to a curious consideration of life after death.
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Miss Silver #13
The Case Of William Smith
Wentworth, Patricia
Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him?
For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory, and no one expected him ever to find the answer. So when he took his work to Eversleys Ltd, why was his life so instantly in danger?
William makes the frightening discovery that there are people who will stop at nothing to ensure his memory does not return. And without knowing anything of his own past, how can he and Miss Silver stop them striking again?
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Miss Silver #14
Eternity Ring
Wentworth, Patricia
Mary Stokes was walking through Dead Man's Copse one evening when she saw, in the beam of a torch, the corpse of a young woman dressed in a black coat, black gloves, no hat and an eternity ring set with diamonds in her ear. But when she and Detective Sergeant Frank Abbott went back to the wood the body had vanished. This would have been mystery enough for Miss Silver to solve if a woman had not also reported that her lodger had gone out on Friday dressed in a black coat, black beret, black shoes and large hoop earrings 'set all round with little diamonds like those eternity rings.' She never came back...
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Miss Silver #15
The Catherine Wheel
Wentworth, Patricia
There was a certain heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top. The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now is looked like it was harbouring a murderer. It had begun with an advertisement in the paper requesting descendants of the late innkeeper, Jeremiah Taverner, to stay for a weekend at the inn. They had arrived, a mixed assortment, to the family reunion eager to discover the secrets of their ancestry. But one of them had been hideously murdered, bringing the inn's stormy past into frightening focus. Scotland Yard, already suspicious of dope smuggling in the area, sends Maud Silver to investigate before the fireworks start to fly.
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Miss Silver #19
Through The Wall
Wentworth, Patricia
Martin Brand's relatives are furious that he's left his large estate to his niece, Marion, whom he had only met once. And Marion is upset that she has to share her new home with Martin's family. Then a body is found on the beach wearing her coat. Fortunately Miss Silver is on the scene.
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Miss Silver #23
Out Of The Past
Wentworth, Patricia
Miss Silver becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of Alan Field during a short holiday to the Channel coast. Inspector Frank Abbott of Scotland Yard enlists the aid of Miss Silver, who, armed only with her knitting needles and years of long experience in observation of human nature.
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Miss Silver #29
Poison In The Pen
Wentworth, Patricia
When a mysterious suicide follows an outbreak of poison pen letters in the quiet village of Tilling Green, Detective Inspector Frank Abbott of Scotland Yard dispatches Miss Silver to investigate. It soon becomes apparent to Miss Silver that the suicide was murder and that there is a vicious and determined killer at work.
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Miss Silver #30
The Fingerprint
Wentworth, Patricia
When she found the body of her beloved Uncle Jonathan, Georgina's mind went blank. Instinctively, she stooped to pick up the revolver, thus becoming the prime suspect. For Georgina stood to inherit a large fortune when her uncle died - if he didn't decide to leave it to his adopted niece, the seemingly innocent Mirrie Field...
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Miss Silver #31
The Alington Inheritance
Wentworth, Patricia
Discovering that she is the rightful heir to the Alington estate but unable to prove it, teen orphan Jenny Hill arranges her employment at Alington to search for evidence and is assisted by Miss Silver when jealous relatives plot against her.
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Miss Silver #32
The Girl In The Cellar
Wentworth, Patricia
As she flees the scene of a murder, a young woman suffering from amnesia can only remember that her first name is Anne. The panic-stricken woman encounters Miss Silver, who attempts to solve the riddle of Anne's identity before her dreaded fears become reality. Originally published in 1961.
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