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Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend, Detective Sergeant Abbott tells
him that, having been left the custody of her motherless little
niece, she is taking a domestic job in the country with a family
named Pilgrim. Frank is appalled, mysterious deaths have been
taking place there. A curse is on the house of Pilgrim's Rest and
by the time Miss Silver investigates she has four murders to solve.
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Grey Mask (Paperback)
Patricia Wentworth
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R292
R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
Save R17 (6%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE Miss
Silver must foil a plot to murder a beautiful young heiress 'Ranks
with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily Mail Furious at
being jilted at the altar by his once-fiance Margaret Langton,
Charles Moray left England behind him. Now, four years later, he
returns to his family home, only to find it unlocked and with a
light burning in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, Charles
soon discovers that a criminal gang has been using his house to
plan a vicious crime. The target is the beautiful Margot Standing,
who is due to inherit a considerable fortune. And what's more he
recognises the voices of one of the conspirators - his lost love
Margaret Langton. How did Margaret come to be involved? And who is
the terrifying masked man who has her in his thrall? Charles
contacts Miss Silver to unravel the mysteries of the case and, if
she can, save Margot Standings life. 'A first-rate storyteller'
Daily Telegraph 'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' Observer
'Miss Silver is marvellous' Daily Mail 'Better than Miss Marple'
Mary Stewart 'A particular favourite' Andrew Taylor 'Miss
Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her
solution satisfying' Scotsman 'Miss Silver has her place in
detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot'
Manchester Evening News
Bill Waring, collecting his wits in hospital after a train crash,
receives only one letter from Lila Dryden, his fiancee. When he
discovers Lady Dryden, Lila's guardian, has pressured her into an
engagement with Herbert Whitall, he is furious. Herbert Whitall is
aggressive, with a cold-hearted possessiveness that expands past
the bounds of his ivory collection he can't bear to lose. His
employees hate him, Lila is terrified of him and it appears he has
a hold on Lady Dryden. When a dagger in Whitall's collection
becomes the instrument of his own death there are many suspects.
Maud Silver must see that justice is done, not merely to punish the
guilty, but to protect the innocent.
New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing
from tradition, James Paradine makes a speech that changes the
course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member
of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to
confess and return the papers. A few minutes after twelve James
Paradine is dead. It is left to Miss Silver to disentangle the
threads that bind the Paradine family in a strange web of dislike,
hatred and fear.
A young woman regains consciousness and finds herself on some
cellar steps. At the bottom of the steps there is the corpse of a
dead girl. She cannot remember who she is, what has happened or why
she is there. Terrified and confused she manages to find a way out
and as she flees she runs into Miss Silver, who offers to help her.
A letter in her bag is the only clue to her identity. But by
investigating what has happened to her will she find herself in
danger? Can she trust the letter writer? And who is the girl in the
cellar?
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Ladies' Bane (Paperback)
Patricia Wentworth
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R311
R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
Save R47 (15%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE Miss
Silver must unravel a tangled web of marriage, mystery and murder
'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily Mail No
one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married. Her husband swept
her off her feet and out of London, to a faraway town called
Bleake. She has stopped writing letters, and her family has begun
to worry. Allegra's husband is a strange man. He is consumed with
his dream of owning the ramshackle estate curiously known as
Ladies' Bane, and he intends to use his new wife's money to do it.
Why he wants to live there no one knows, but Josepha Bowden does
not want his castle to become her goddaughter's prison. She asks
the help of Maud Silver, the former governess who now makes a
living using her reason to unravel the intricacies of murder. There
has been no killing in Bleake, but if Miss Silver doesn't intervene
quickly, there could be one soon. 'A first-rate storyteller' Daily
Telegraph 'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' Observer 'Miss
Silver is marvellous' Daily Mail 'Better than Miss Marple' Mary
Stewart 'A particular favourite' Andrew Taylor 'Miss Wentworth's
plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution
satisfying' Scotsman 'Miss Silver has her place in detective
fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot'
Manchester Evening News
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