Miss Silver Comes to Stay
By (Author) Patricia Wentworth
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
1st January 1990
1st October 1985
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.912
Paperback
352
Width 176mm, Height 110mm, Spine 36mm
200g
When he was 21 James Lessiter told Henrietta Cray that he loved her before all things and so broke Catherine Lees heart. But James has a side to him that most people do not see. When the engagement is broken off noone is sure why and Rietta refuses to explain.
Twenty years later James returns to the village an extremely wealthy man. Rietta is still unmarried and Catherine is a penniless widow living in a cottage on the Lessiter estate. Trouble is inevitable, for Catherine has started to sell some of the valuable contents of the cottage to keep up a lifestyle she cannot afford but James has his suspicions and is looking forward to exposing her. He has always enjoyed seeing someone else suffer whatever the cost. When he is brutally murdered there all too many people who would benefit from his death but fortunately Miss Silver is ready to investigate.Praise for Patricia Wentworth:
Miss Silver is marvelous - Daily MailYou can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver - ObserverMiss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller - Daily TelegraphMiss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying - ScotsmanI always thought them rather better than 'Miss Marple' and certainly very well written. - Mary StewartPatricia 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.