Product Description

For Althea Graham, suffering the whims of her malevolent invalid of a mother, the old family home is a prison. So when two strangely competitive offers for the Graham's house are made to her it suggests that house may hold some dark rewarding secret. Then old Mrs Graham is found murdered in the gazebo ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #751019 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.' -- The Observer 'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' -- Manchester Evening News 'Miss Silver is marvellous' -- Daily Mail '...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery' -- Alfred Hitchcock Magazine

Ingram
Named the primary suspects in the death of a hypochondriac, the victim's daughter Althea and her fiance+a7 Nicholas request the help of Miss Silver, who finds elusive clues at the site of the murder. Reprint.

About the Author
Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime.