Out of the Past

✍ Scribed by Wentworth, Patricia

• Publisher: Open Road Media;HarperPerennial
• Year: 2011;1993,
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Edition: Di 1 ban
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

*A runaway groom returns—and murder ensues—in the series starring a governess-turned-sleuth: *“Miss Silver is marvelous” ( Daily Mail).

Carmona is lucky not to marry Alan Field. Charming though he may be, the young man is a rascal, and though her heart breaks when he disappears on the eve of their wedding, she is surely much better off. By the time she learns that Alan has decamped for South America, she has already given her heart to a more deserving suitor.

Several years later, Alan reappears—desperate for money and as charming as ever. An author is writing a biography of Alan’s late father, and it is up to the prodigal son to go through his father’s letters. He finds a bundle of scandalous correspondence, and begins to form a plan. It begins as blackmail, but quickly spins out of control. By the time the first body appears, the prim detective Maud Silver is already on the case.

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Review

“Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot.” —*Manchester Evening News *

“Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything.” —Paula Gosling, author of the Jack Stryker mystery series

“You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.” — The Observer

Review

'Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything' -- Paula Gosling Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' -- Manchester Evening News 'Miss Silver is marvellous' -- Daily Mail 'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' -- The Scotsman 'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' -- Observer '... some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery' -- Alfred Hitchcock magazine