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Out of the Past (Miss Silver #23)

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

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Title:Out of the Past (Miss Silver #23)
Author:
Elles, Dora Amy  Writing under the pseudonym: Wentworth, Patricia   
(34 of 47 for author by title)
Outrageous Fortune [Seven Green Stones]
Nothing Venture
Published:   1955
Publisher:Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Tags:fiction, Miss Silver (Fictitional character), mystery, women detectives
Description:

ames 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, destroys the holiday atmosphere in the ugly old house and replaces it with mounting tension, culminating in murder. Fortunately for the Hardwicks and their guests, Miss Silver is present to unravel the secrets from the past -- secrets the killer will stop at nothing to keep hidden. [Suggest a different description.]

Comments:Miss Silver Mystery #23
Downloads:780
Pages:268 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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