Author: Patricia Wentworth Year: 1952 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Cozy Mystery
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Miss Silver travels to the country to investigate a young man who may be deceiving his wife.
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, consumed with the dream of owning a ramshackle medieval estate, 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.
This book is part of the "Miss Silver" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Fingerprint" First published in 1959 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Gazebo" First published in 1958 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Listening Eye" First published in 1955 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Poison in the Pen" First published in 1955 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Watersplash" First published in 1954 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Silent Pool" First published in 1953 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Out of the Past" First published in 1953 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Vanishing Point" First published in 1953 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Ivory Dagger" First published in 1950 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Catherine Wheel" First published in 1949 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Eternity Ring" First published in 1948 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Latter End" First published in 1947 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Wicked Uncle" First published in 1947 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Pilgrim's Rest" First published in 1946 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "She Came Back" First published in 1945 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Through the Wall" First published in 1945 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Key" First published in 1944 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Chinese Shawl" First published in 1943 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "In the Balance" First published in 1941 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Lonesome Road" First published in 1939 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Case Is Closed" First published in 1937 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Grey Mask" First published in 1928 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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