In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth who “has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot,” Miss Silver investigates a case of marital murder (Manchester Evening News). Lois has always dreamed of being a Latter. The Latter brothers are both so attractive—nearly as handsome as their stately manor, Latter End. After she spoils her relationship with … spoils her relationship with one brother, Lois succeeds with the other, winning his heart with her good looks and a sizeable fortune from her first marriage. But even after they’ve wed, she never quite fits in with the family. Still, she hardly expects them to kill her.
When the psychic Memnon warns her of murder by poison, Lois laughs it off and so does everyone else, but then, like clockwork, she’s dead. The weapon? Poison, of course. Only the brilliant governess-turned-detective Miss Maud Silver can solve this tantalizing case complicated by the bitterness that infests Latter End.
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Patricia Wentworth is a master of the cozy
Country manor Latter End should be a paradise with kind Jimmy Latter as its master, but Jimmy is mastered by his second wife. Jimmy wants to share his home with his beloved family; Lois Latter can’t bear them and is unscrupulously squeezing them out. You will wait on pins and needles for Lois to be murdered. I didn’t want anyone in the household …
Typical of Patricia Wentworth. Her plots are all similar so you know where she is going. Her style is delightful but after a few books kind of boring.
Miss Silver is a great elderly detective. Unlike Miss Marple, she’s a professional and has her own “agency”.
I love Miss Silver, and this one had me fooled up to the end. Great plot!