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The Listening Eye (Miss Silver #28)

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

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Title:The Listening Eye (Miss Silver #28)
Author:
Elles, Dora Amy  Writing under the pseudonym: Wentworth, Patricia   
(28 of 47 for author by title)
Lonesome Road (Miss Silver #3)
Latter End (Miss Silver #11)
Published:   1957
Publisher:Hodder and Stoughton Limited
Tags:fiction, Miss Silver (Fictitional character), mystery, women detectives
Description:

A deaf woman learns something she shouldn’t, and she asks Miss Silver for protection.

Paulina Paine was buried under her house during the Blitz. She spent twenty-four hours trapped underneath the rubble, where the silence was absolute as the grave, and only after she escaped did she realize that the bomb that spared her life had taken her hearing. With difficulty, she learned to read lips—an invaluable skill that may soon get her killed. She is at an art gallery when, quite by chance, she spies an interesting conversation across the room. Without meaning to, she eavesdrops, and learns of a shocking plan to commit a most fearsome robbery. She doesn’t know what to do until she learns that, after she left, the two men asked after her, and learned about her special talent. Now only the demure detective Maud Silver can halt the robbery and save Paulina’s life. [Suggest a different description.]

Comments:Miss Silver Mystery #28
Downloads:862
Pages:181 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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