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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1991,c1948
Language
English
Description
A young woman's violent murder shocks a quiet village, and Miss Silver comes to investigate In Deeping, a village so tiny that its residents share a common phone line, gossip is the chief amusement. Scotland Yard inspector Frank Abbott has family there, and thinks it a charming spot for a vacation until the country quiet is broken by a cry of "Murder!" A young German woman, recently come to town, has been making vague threats about recovering something...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1991,c1949
Language
English
Description
When a complicated inheritance case turns deadly, Miss Silver suspects an entire family An advertisement appears in the newspaper, asking for genealogical information from descendants of a certain Jeremiah Taverner, who died in long-ago 1888. It looks like an ordinary notice by a curious scholar, but the question is not nearly as simple as that. The man behind the ad is a Taverner himself: estranged, wealthy, and looking for a suitable relation to...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1992, c1943
Language
English
Description
Miss Silver must intervene when an age-old family feud returns with fatal effect All London loves Tanis Lyle. A beautiful amateur who happened accidentally on a career in the theater, she has just finished filming her first motion picture. Though hardly beautiful, the young woman has electric charm, and seems to hypnotize all who meet her. This is the effect she has on Laura Fane, a distant cousin who has long heard rumors of the great beauty who,...
Author
Series
Miss Silver mystery volume 7
Language
English
Description
Miss Silver investigates the murder of a great British industrialist 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. A cold figure, James Paradine prefers work to his relations, but on New Year's Eve he convenes the household. Valuable plans have been stolen from his office, and only one person could be to blame. He knows the culprit's name,...
Author
Series
Miss Silver mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
When a new clue arises in a long-closed murder inquiry, Miss Silver fights to free an innocent man Marion Grey is growing used to the idea that her husband will never leave prison. After the horrors of a very public trial she is almost able to find relief in her resignation. But when new evidence suggests her husband may be innocent after all, she hires a professional-Miss Silver-to clear his name. It begins with a chance encounter on a busy train,...
Author
Series
Miss Silver mystery volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1988, 1985, c1939
Language
English
Description
A terrified young woman asks Miss Silver for help unmasking someone who has threatened her life Rachel Traherne does not want to meet Maud Silver. She does not want to tell her that someone has threatened her life, because she does not want that dreadful fact to be true. But see Miss Silver she must, for the stout, old-fashioned detective is the only person in London who may be able to keep her safe. Rachel has been receiving threatening letters about...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Miss Silver helps a woman with no memory reconstruct a terrible crime She awakes in a dark place. A young woman with a shattered memory, she knows neither who she is nor how she came to be in this abandoned house. All she possesses is a faint sense that someone is lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Horrifyingly, she is correct. In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver's shell. The amnesiac...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Miss Silver investigates a case of blackmail in an apartment house Vandeleur House was great once. The home of a prominent court painter, its ballroom and parlors hosted the brightest of the Victorian era. Now divided into eight flats, it is an apartment building whose glorious façade conceals a nest of diabolical intrigue. There is Maude, a young woman who was crossing the Atlantic when her steamer was struck by a Nazi torpedo. She survived;...
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