Patricia Wentworth

The first of the classic mysteries featuring governess-turned-detective Miss Silver, who investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring....

Edward Random returns to Deeping a forgotten man. Although raised in the village's manor house, he is no longer wealthy - the result of a quarrel with an uncle, which left him out of the old man's will....

Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him? For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity....

Tilling Green was a charming little village nestling in the Ledshire countryside. Not at all the sort of place you would expect to find an anonymous letter writer....

The Everton murder case has long been closed. The culprit has been charged with the murder of his uncle and has served a year of his sentence already. Or has he....

It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been working for the government on a secret project for years....

The two Miss Pilgrims, Columba and Janette, think its unwise to leave their fine ancestral home, Pilgrim's Rest....

Amabel Grey, a widow with a modest income, needs money. Fast. She overhears a client requesting the lawyer find someone to live in his Dower House. The catch? Previous tenants have been driven away by strange happenings....

On vacation in a tiny village, Miss Silver investigates a murder with a decades-old motive....

Mary Stokes was walking through Dead Man's Copse one evening when she saw, in the beam of a torch, the corpse of a young woman....

Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over....

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....

First she felt herself being pushed downstairs. Then there was the bowl of poisoned mushroom soup....

A terrified young woman asks Miss Silver for help unmasking someone who has threatened her life....

A young woman goes to the country to reconnect with old relatives, and stumbles on a murder only Miss Silver can solve....

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

Hired to trace Anna Ball, who has vanished, Miss Maud Silver encounters an eccentric art colony, bank robberies, and counterfeiting....

Miss Silver helps a woman with no memory reconstruct a terrible crime....

When a question of inheritance turns fatal, Miss Silver searches for the killer....

Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way.....