Patricia Wentworth

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea....

Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way.....

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

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

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

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....

When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underwood is left in the company of a middle-aged aunt with nothing but a monotonous round of bridge parties....

Though they share a manor house, the Paradines are not close, and their patriarch does nothing to discourage the petty jealousies that divide wealthy families....

It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been working for the government on a secret project for years....

Edward Random returns to Deeping a forgotten man. Although raised in the village's manor house, he is no longer wealthy - the result of a quarrel with an uncle, which left him out of the old man's will....

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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