Out of the Past

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James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea.

The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona's past, lifts the hoiday atmosphere from the ugly old house and replaces it with a mounting tension, culminating in murder.

Fortunately for the Hardwicks and their guests, Miss Silver is present to unravel the complex mystery and seek out the murderer amongst them.

Reviews

You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver - Observer

Miss Silver is marvellous - Daily Mail

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

...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery - Alfred Hitchcock magazine

Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady whwo nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything - Paula Gosling

Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying - The Scotsman

Author Bio

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.