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James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea.
The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona’s past, destroys the holiday atmosphere in the old house and replaces it with a mounting tension, culminating in murder.
Fortunately, Miss Silver is present to unravel the complex mystery and seek out the murderer amongst them.
The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona’s past, destroys the holiday atmosphere in the old house and replaces it with a mounting tension, culminating in murder.
Fortunately, Miss Silver is present to unravel the complex mystery and seek out the murderer amongst them.
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Reviews
Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything
Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller'
Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot
Miss Silver is marvellous
Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying
You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver
. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery
