Ladies' Bane
Aug 2018 · Hachette UK
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CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE
Miss Silver must unravel a tangled web of marriage, mystery and murder
'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily Mail
No one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married. Her husband swept her off her feet and out of London, to a faraway town called Bleake. She has stopped writing letters, and her family has begun to worry.
Allegra's husband is a strange man. He is consumed with his dream of owning the ramshackle estate curiously known as Ladies' Bane, and he intends to use his new wife's money to do it. Why he wants to live there no one knows, but Josepha Bowden does not want his castle to become her goddaughter's prison.
She asks the help of Maud Silver, the former governess who now makes a living using her reason to unravel the intricacies of murder. There has been no killing in Bleake, but if Miss Silver doesn't intervene quickly, there could be one soon.
'A first-rate storyteller' Daily Telegraph
'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' Observer
'Miss Silver is marvellous' Daily Mail
'Better than Miss Marple' Mary Stewart
'A particular favourite' Andrew Taylor
'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' Scotsman
'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' Manchester Evening News
Miss Silver must unravel a tangled web of marriage, mystery and murder
'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily Mail
No one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married. Her husband swept her off her feet and out of London, to a faraway town called Bleake. She has stopped writing letters, and her family has begun to worry.
Allegra's husband is a strange man. He is consumed with his dream of owning the ramshackle estate curiously known as Ladies' Bane, and he intends to use his new wife's money to do it. Why he wants to live there no one knows, but Josepha Bowden does not want his castle to become her goddaughter's prison.
She asks the help of Maud Silver, the former governess who now makes a living using her reason to unravel the intricacies of murder. There has been no killing in Bleake, but if Miss Silver doesn't intervene quickly, there could be one soon.
'A first-rate storyteller' Daily Telegraph
'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' Observer
'Miss Silver is marvellous' Daily Mail
'Better than Miss Marple' Mary Stewart
'A particular favourite' Andrew Taylor
'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' Scotsman
'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' Manchester Evening News
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About the author
Patricia Wentworth was born in Uttarakhand, India but as a young girl moved to London to study at Blackheath High School for Girls.
After writing several romances she turned her hand to crime fiction. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in 1961, and is recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime fiction.
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