eBook, 145 pages
Clock Strikes Twelve
β Scribed by Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 07 - Clock Strikes Twelve
- Book ID
- 109325149
- Publisher
- Warner
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Series
- Miss Silver 7
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781453223680
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
eBook, 145 pages
Miss Silver investigates the murder of a great British industrialistThough 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 YearοΏ½s Eve he convenes the household. Valuable plans have been stolen from his office, and only one person could be to blame. He knows the culpritοΏ½s name, and gives the thief until midnight to come forward. By midnight, James Paradine is dead.οΏ½Was it the thief who killed him, or could it have been someone else, acting on different motives entirely? The local constables are baffled, and it is left to prim detective Maud Silver to out the murderer.
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