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Anne Jocelyn had been a beautiful, wealthy young woman. She had died three years ago. At least, that was what her husband Philip and the rest of the family had always thought. But then a woman calling herself Anne Jocelyn appeared and managed to convince everyone that she was the real Anne. Everyone, that is, except Miss Silver, whose suspicions are aroused by an apparently senseless murder.
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A particular favourite
Miss Wentworth is a first rate story-teller
Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying
. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery
Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot
You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver
Miss Silver is marvellous
Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything