Автор - Patricia Wentworth
Anna, Where Are You?
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
Hired to trace Anna Ball, who has vanished, Miss Maud Silver encounters an eccentric art colony, bank robberies and counterfeiting. As with other Miss Silver mysteries, the story relies on character development. Nadia May reads clearly and distinguishes individuals well; her British voice is ideal for this genteel period thriller (1951). Agatha Christie fans will enjoy this one. The narration is speeded up to fit six cassettes, but it is not hard to follow.
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Beggar’s Choice
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
When Car Fairfax starts his mysterious new job, his sole duty seems to be to dine in expensive restaurants, but soon some odd coincidences and dangerous deceits open his eyes to the truth.
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Latter End
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows, which Lois invariably won. But when Lois Latter is murdered, it's shocking to discover just how many people might have wished her dead.
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Lonesome Road
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
Someone is trying to kill beautiful Rachel Treherne for her fortune. Enlisting the talents of Miss Silver seems the only way she can stay alive.
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Ladies’ Bane
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
Immediately on her arrival at Ladies’ House, Ione Muir realizes that all is not right with her newly married sister, Allegra. The town of Bleake is charming, but the medieval manor house itself-known by a sinister local legend as Ladies’ Bane-is full of gloomy depths and twisting staircases. Her brother-in-law, Geoffrey Trent, intends to purchase the expensive property, with which he is clearly infatuated, although his wife seems frightened by it. But it is soon obvious that Allegra is under the constant influence of narcotics. Miss Silver, hired by Allegra’s godmother to investigate Geoffrey’s finances, is the first to suspect foul play when his mischevious young ward, Margot, dies in a mysterious accident. Her keen intellect and uncanny understanding of human nature help Miss Silver to reveal the ominous forces that are at work in this strange household.
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Miss Silver Deals With Death
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
A chance encounter restores Giles Armitage to his fiancee, but the shipwreck has left him with amnesia, and their happiness is threatened by Carola Roland. So when Carola is murdered, Giles is the chief suspect and it takes all Miss Silver's ingenuity to unravel the real significance of the crime.
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Miss Silver Comes To Stay
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance opens old wounds never healed. Then he is found bludgeoned to death by a fire poker and the suspects are too numerous to count. Thank heavens Miss Silver is in town to visit a friend.
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Danger Point
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
This is one of some 30 Miss Silver mysteries which Patricia Wentworth wrote during her lifetime. It concerns money motivated marriages and has a complex plot, full of suspense. The author has a large and devoted readership in both Britain and America.
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El Estanque En Silencio
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
Ninguna ley impide que una famosa actriz, con mucho dinero y algún que otro remordimiento, quiera sentirse acompañada en su vejez, tras retirarse de la escena. Pero el sentido común debiera de impedir que, a cambio de no estar solo, una vieja rica reuniera en una solitaria mansión rural a un conjunto de parientes parásitos dispuestos a quedarse en exclusiva con su herencia. Porque así pasa lo que pasa: se empieza con envidias, rivalidades y rencores y se termina por encontrar cadáveres flotando en el estanque de la finca.
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Mr. Zero
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
When Gay Harkwicke and her fiance, Algy, investigate the mysterious Mr. Zero, who is blackmailing Gay's cousin, Algy ends up becoming the prime suspect in a messy murder, and Gay must find the true culprit.
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Out of the Past
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
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, destroys the holiday atmosphere in the old house and replaces it with a mounting tension, culminating in murder.Fortunately, Miss Silver is present to unravel the complex mystery and seek out the murderer amongst them.
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Pilgrim’s Rest
Автор: Patricia WentworthЖанр: Иностранная литература
When Columba and Janetta Pilgrim think it unwise to leave their ancestral home after their brother suffers a fatal fall only days after talk of selling it, and Roger Pilgrim barely escapes two nearly fatal "accidents," Miss Maud Silver is called in to look into the case.
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