Patricia Wentworth's novels are a classic English style, tension of intrigue, psychologism of characters. The tireless Maud Silver, whose abilities any priva...

Adrianna Ford's life is in danger: three attempts have already been made on her life. The will may be to blame: the inheritance of the aging actress is a tas...

Patricia Wentworth's detective stories have it all: a captivating plot, gripping intrigue and a surprising, quintessentially British protagonist - Miss Maul ...

The young mistress of the Letter End estate, the beautiful Lois, is found dead... Which of the many members of the eccentric family could have put poison in ...

When Lila Dryden was found standing over her murdered groom, few doubted her guilt. The girl insisted that she didn’t remember anything - a dubious alibi. An...

Anna Jocelyn, a beautiful and rich woman, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and her husband Philip inherited all the money. Three years later, he w...

Geoffrey Gray was convicted of murdering a wealthy uncle. However, the cousin of his young wife, the determined Hilary Carew, meets the witness at the trial,...

Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows, whic...

When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance opens old wounds never healed. Then he is found bludge...

On New Year's Eve, 1940, James Paradine makes a speech to his family. Valuable documents have disappeared and the culprit has until midnight to confess. A...

This is one of some 30 Miss Silver mysteries which Patricia Wentworth wrote during her lifetime. It concerns money motivated marriages and has a complex p...

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