Patricia Wentworth

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

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

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....

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

Mary Stokes was walking through Dead Man's Copse one evening when she saw, in the beam of a torch, the corpse of a young woman....

The murder of a government scientist demands the attention of Miss Silver....

When he was 21 James Lessiter told Henrietta Cray that he loved her before all things and so broke Catherine Lee's heart....

Though they share a manor house, the Paradines are not close, and their patriarch does nothing to discourage the petty jealousies that divide wealthy families....

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

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

Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way. Her cousin Laura hated her. Most women did. But men found her irresistible....

There was a certain heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top....

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....

A gardener's death sends a country house into a frenzy, and Miss Silver swoops in to set things right....

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....

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

Miss Silver joins a friend from Scotland Yard to investigate a suspicious suicide....

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....

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea....

Miss Silver helps a woman with no memory reconstruct a terrible crime....