Patricia Wentworth

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

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

A young woman goes to the country to reconnect with old relatives, and stumbles on a murder only Miss Silver can solve....

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....

Timid Renata Molloy is in mortal peril after overhearing details of a breathtaking conspiracy. But her courageous and near-identical cousin Jane Smith—homeless and just two-and-elevenpence away from the workhouse—is willing to take her place....

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

First she felt herself being pushed downstairs. Then there was the bowl of poisoned mushroom soup....

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....

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

On vacation in a tiny village, Miss Silver investigates a murder with a decades-old motive....

The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now it looked like it was harbouring a murderer....

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

Amabel Grey, a widow with a modest income, needs money. Fast. She overhears a client requesting the lawyer find someone to live in his Dower House. The catch? Previous tenants have been driven away by strange happenings....

Bill Waring went to America with a bright future ahead of him. In London, he had a promising career and the love of a young beauty, Lila Dryden, and there were plans for marriage....

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....

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

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

When a question of inheritance turns fatal, Miss Silver searches for the killer....

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

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....