Patricia Wentworth

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....

When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underwood is left in the company of a middle-aged aunt with nothing but a monotonous round of bridge parties....

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....

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

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....

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....

The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now it looked like it was harbouring a murderer....

This collection offers three novels of adventure and suspense from Patricia Wentworth, each with its own plucky and independent young heroine.

Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother seldom visits the gazebo - yet she is found dead in it one morning....

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....

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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