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Grey Mask
By (Author) Patricia Wentworth
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
12th April 2001
15th March 2001
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.912
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 177mm, Spine 22mm
206g
Furious at being jilted at the altar by Margaret Langton, Charles Moray left England behind him. Four years later he returns only to discover that a criminal gang has been using his house to plan a vicious crime. The target is the beautiful Margot Standing, who stands to inherit a considerable fortune. But the gang has other plans for her.
Charles is appalled to discover that Margaret Langton is one of the conspirators. How did she come to be involved And who is the terrifying masked man who has her in his thrall'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Silver is marvellous' -- Daily Mail '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 'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' -- Observer
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.