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The Silent Pool (Miss Silver #24)

This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Patricia Wentworth (1878-1961)

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Title:The Silent Pool (Miss Silver #24)
Author:
Elles, Dora Amy  Writing under the pseudonym: Wentworth, Patricia   
(41 of 47 for author by title)
Spotlight [Wicked Uncle] (Miss Silver #12)
Silence in Court
Published:   1956
Publisher:Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Tags:fiction, Miss Silver (Fictitional character), mystery, women detectives
Description:

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 a disguise, the detective recognizes the woman as Adriana Ford, the grand dame of the London stage. Mrs. Smith was a ruse; the attempts on her life are quite real. There is soon a body at Adriana's country estate, but it is not the actress who has been killed. Fully interested, Miss Silver travels to the house, where she learns that the actress is not the only one who tells lies. [Suggest a different description.]

Comments:Miss Silver Mystery #24
Downloads:634
Pages:276 Info

Author Bio for Elles, Dora Amy

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Dora Amy Elles (November 10, 1878 - January 28, 1961) wrote under the pen name of Patricia Wentworth. She was a British crime writer, best known for her Miss Silver Mysteries, though she also wrote romantic novels. Miss Silver is frequently compared to Agatha Christie's Jane Marple, though Patricia Wentworth's first Miss Silver novel pre-dated Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple novel by two years, and may well have inspired Agatha Christie.

In Marion Shaw & Sabine Vanacker's book Reflecting on Miss Marple, they said: "while Miss Marple may receive ten times the attention as Miss Silver, ... the woefully neglected Miss Silver is the real deal - a professional investigator and a stand-up woman, a true forerunner of all future female private eyes."

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