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Marvelous retired governess and teacher Maud Silver may seem like a kindly old soul. But with her keen mind and spritely demeanor, she's Scotland Yard's secret weapon against crime. Through the Wall: After years of toil caring for her layabout sister, Marian Brand is shocked when her unknown uncle leaves her his entire estate. Now, she can finally be happy. But her uncle made a lot of postmortem enemies when he cut them out of his will, so claiming...
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Three mysteries featuring governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver. Retired governess Maud Silver is about as unlikely a sleuth that Scotland Yard has ever seen-but her unassuming manner only helps her unravel their most mystifying cases. Miss Silver Comes to Stay: While visiting an old school chum in the rustic town of Melling, Miss Silver soon finds that its bucolic charm hides undercurrents of murderous vengeance. When Melling's prodigal son returns...
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Retired governess and teacher Maud Silver has found a new calling: private detection. With her knitting needles and fondness for Tennyson, she may seem an unlikely sleuth, but Scotland Yard would be lost without her.
In the Balance: On a train back to London, Miss Silver meets a frightened new bride. Lisle Jerningham has fled her home after overhearing a seemingly sinister conversation. Her husband's first wife died in an apparent accident, and...
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The Clock Strikes Twelve: A wealthy British family convenes in their manor house for New Year's Eve. But when their industrialist patriarch dies, it's up to prim Miss Silver to determine who rang in the new year with murder . . .
The Key: A German Jewish scientist working for the British war effort is murdered, and his new formula has been stolen. Now Miss Silver must find the killer or risk an explosive disaster . . .
She Came Back: Three years...
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The British governess-turned-sleuth continues her witty, inquisitive ways. Retired governess Maud Silver has discovered an entirely new calling: private detection. And though she may seem an unlikely sleuth, Scotland Yard needs her more than ever in this charming series. The Case of William Smith: William Smith isn't sure what his name is, but he knows it isn't William Smith. That was the name the Nazis gave him in 1942, when he was sent to die in...
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In this atmospheric tale from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, a widow is reunited with her girlhood love in a house haunted by all-too-human ghosts They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn't laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him up-the man she'd fallen passionately in love with-for the fiancé who needed her. Now an unexpected circumstance brings the British widow and the world-famous...
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Three cozy mysteries in the "timelessly charming" historical series featuring a retired English governess who finds a second calling as a detective (Charlotte MacLeod). Meet Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess and little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything. Dark Threat: Judy Elliot leaves war-torn London for a job as a maid in the peaceful countryside. But something's not right at the house known as Pilgrim's Rest. Fortunately...
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Retired governess and teacher Maud Silver has a new profession: private detective. And though she may seem a kindly and demure pensioner, she can solve crimes right alongside the best Scotland Yard has to offer in this charming series.
Out of the Past: Alan Field is a charming, handsome young man with a predilection for causing trouble and breaking hearts. But when he learns that an author is writing a biography of his late father, it's up to Alan...
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The first three novels in the classic Miss Silver Mysteries introduce Patricia Wentworth's beloved British governess-turned-sleuth. In The Grey Mask, Miss Maud Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. Strangely, he finds his family estate unlocked and sees a light in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping,...
10) Ladies' Bane
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 22
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Miss Silver travels to the country to investigate a young man who may be deceiving his wife 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, consumed with the dream of owning a ramshackle medieval estate, and he intends to use his new wife's money to do it....
11) The Ivory Dagger
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 19
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When a broken engagement leads to murder, Miss Silver hunts for the killer Bill Waring went to America with a bright future ahead of him. In London he had a promising career and the love of a young beauty, Lila Dryden, and there were plans for marriage when he returned from overseas. But then a freak train accident puts their happiness on hold. Bill spends a month in the hospital, and when he finally makes it back to London, there is a still bigger...
12) The Key
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 8
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The murder of a government scientist demands the attention of Miss Silver Michael Harsch's life has never been easy. A German Jew, he fled his country when Hitler came to power, escaping the concentration camps by the skin of his teeth. His wife and daughter were not so lucky, and he vowed revenge on the Fuhrer through science. He set to work on a marvelous new explosive that, in the hands of the British army, could silence the German guns forever....
13) The Silent Pool
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 24
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An actress who fears her life is threatened comes to Miss Silver for help Mrs. Smith is not the first woman who has come to Maud Silver, the genteel private detective, claiming that someone is trying to kill her. She tells a story of attempted poisoning, a shove down a flight of stairs, and a house full of relatives who might want to push her out of the way. Miss Silver is intrigued, not least because this is not Mrs. Smith. Despite her attempt at...
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A collector enlists Miss Silver's help when his valuable jewels attract criminal attention He cannot say why, but Lewis Brading is an uneasy man. A collector of valuable jewels, he has taken the utmost precautions to safeguard what is most precious to him. He houses his gems in a concrete annex, protected by a reinforced steel door, the latest security system, and his own watchful eye. No one has a key but himself and his assistant, and he doesn't...
15) Eternity Ring
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 14
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A young woman's violent murder shocks a quiet village, and Miss Silver comes to investigate In Deeping, a village so tiny that its residents share a common phone line, gossip is the chief amusement. Scotland Yard inspector Frank Abbott has family there, and thinks it a charming spot for a vacation until the country quiet is broken by a cry of "Murder!" A young German woman, recently come to town, has been making vague threats about recovering something...
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 6
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Miss Silver investigates a case of blackmail in an apartment house Vandeleur House was great once. The home of a prominent court painter, its ballroom and parlors hosted the brightest of the Victorian era. Now divided into eight flats, it is an apartment building whose glorious façade conceals a nest of diabolical intrigue. There is Maude, a young woman who was crossing the Atlantic when her steamer was struck by a Nazi torpedo. She survived;...
17) Out of the Past
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 23
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A desperate man's quest for money leads to murder, and Miss Silver hunts for the killer Carmona is lucky not to marry Alan Field. Charming though he may be, the young man is a rascal, and though her heart breaks when he disappears on the eve of their wedding, she is surely much better off. By the time she learns that Alan has decamped for South America, she has already given her heart to a more deserving suitor. Several years later, Alan reappears-desperate...
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 26
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A young woman goes to the country to reconnect with old relatives, and stumbles on a murder only Miss Silver can solve An orphan of the Second World War, Candida Sayle has gotten so used to life with her guardian that she never considered that she might have a family somewhere. When her guardian dies, a letter appears from an unheard-of aunt, informing Candida that it is time for her to return to the Benevent family fold. The young woman ventures...
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 27
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A deaf woman learns something she shouldn't, and she asks Miss Silver for protection Paulina Paine was buried under her house during the Blitz. She spent twenty-four hours trapped underneath the rubble, where the silence was absolute as the grave, and only after she escaped did she realize that the bomb that spared her life had taken her hearing. With difficulty, she learned to read lips-an invaluable skill that may soon get her killed. She is...
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 31
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When a question of inheritance turns fatal, Miss Silver searches for the killer Jenny has never been one to feel sorry for herself. The illegitimate child of a wealthy man and a statureless woman, she has been an orphan since before she can remember. It is a hard life made bearable only by the kindness of her guardian, an old woman named Miss Garstone, who has always treated Jenny as her own. Struck down by a motorist, "Garsty" dies, whispering to...
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