Background
Patricia Wentworth was born on November 10, 1878, in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. She was the daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Edmond Roche Elles.
Blackheath High School, London, England, United Kingdom
Patricia Wentworth was educated at Blackheath High School.
Blackheath High School, London, England, United Kingdom
Patricia Wentworth was educated at Blackheath High School.
(A classic historical novel which takes place during the F...)
A classic historical novel which takes place during the French Revolution.
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1910
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1911
(A thrilling tale of love, adventure, and survival during ...)
A thrilling tale of love, adventure, and survival during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 by the creator of the iconic Miss Silver Helen Wilmot, a resourceful and loyal young woman, journeys to India to live with her widower father and Adela Lauriston, her ravishing yet headstrong cousin. When Helen’s father dies, she moves in with Adela and her husband, the dashing Captain Richard Morton. Adela’s flirtatious behavior and imperious attitude set tongues wagging in the expatriate community, but when the spirit of rebellion spreads like wildfire amongst the sepoys of the East India Company, the time for gossip is over. Fleeing the massacre at Cawnpore, Helen, Adela, and Captain Morton discover that the sins of yesterday are never forgotten, and that true love can blossom in even the most tragic of circumstances.
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1912
("The Fire Within" is the first novel by Patricia Wentwort...)
"The Fire Within" is the first novel by Patricia Wentworth, the pseudonym of Dora Amy Elles, a British author. Best known for her series of crime fiction novels featuring Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess who becomes a private detective. Wentworth's earliest offering, "The Fire Within" is in contrast a romantic novel.
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1913
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1914
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1915
(A girl, clad only in a night dress, is found walking in h...)
A girl, clad only in a night dress, is found walking in her sleep. Had she heard too much? Should she be "eliminated"? Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and... murder.
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1923
(Young Sally Meredith is distracted from her jam recipes b...)
Young Sally Meredith is distracted from her jam recipes by a visit from uncle Fritzi, who is accompanied by a mysterious red lacquer case containing a deadly secret. A band of unscrupulous international agents are close behind, and when the eccentric uncle disappears into the night the lacquer case is stolen. But Sally is now the only person who knows how to open the case – she is kidnapped, her life in terrible danger. Meanwhile Bill Armitage, formerly Sally’s fiancé and still in love with her, begins with the aid of Scotland Yard to search for her. The ending of this clever detective story is, unexpected and piquantly, in high contrast to the preceding terrors.
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1924
(James Waring stares into the darkness of a cavern at a re...)
James Waring stares into the darkness of a cavern at a remote shrine in Annam. He’s given his pursuers the slip and is about to behold a gem that few men have ever seen. It is a sacred stone - the only one of its kind in the world. The magnificent blue, green, red, and gold jewel is nearly within his grasp. But as his hand finally closes around it, someone - or something - grabs his ankle... Peter Waring has waited thirteen years to claim his heritage. After losing both his parents, he helped his adopted sister, Rose Ellen, escape her orphanage and find a loving home. But now Peter lives only to possess the elusive Annam Jewel. He will succeed where his father and uncle failed. And he will marry the woman he loves: Sylvia Coverdale. As Peter sets out to retrieve the jewel, he’s shocked to discover that the beautiful Sylvia knows all about the fabled gem. Set before and after World War I, this novel from one of Britain’s most renowned crime writers details a centuries-old legacy of hate, greed, revenge, and violence that is about to come full circle.
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1924
(When Chloe begins to uncover Mitchell Dane’s true motives...)
When Chloe begins to uncover Mitchell Dane’s true motives for bequeathing her the centuries-old manse, she has a very real reason to be afraid: The truth about what’s hidden in the black cabinet will soon threaten her life.
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1925
(They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Gr...)
They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn’t laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him up - the man she’d fallen passionately in love with - for the fiancé who needed her. Now an unexpected circumstance brings the British widow and the world-famous scientist together again. Amabel’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Daphne, has been invited to join her friends - and the boy she adores - on a trip to Egypt. But she needs two hundred pounds from her mother. George Forsham is offering that exact sum to anyone willing to stay six months at Dower House, the centuries-old estate in the English countryside where Amabel and Julian first met. The fact that the overgrown, sadly neglected house is rumored to be haunted doesn’t deter Amabel. Until strange things start happening... The mewing of a cat that doesn’t exist, the sound of flapping wings, someone crying in the dark. Are restless spirits walking the night? Or is there a rational explanation? Plunged into deadly danger, Amabel could lose her second chance with the man she never stopped loving.
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1925
(Anton Blum is the strongest man in Konigswald. But the Ge...)
Anton Blum is the strongest man in Konigswald. But the German peasant is mute; he hasn’t spoken a word since he was wounded in action nearly a decade earlier. On a stormy night, he is recruited by British officers to help remove a tree that has fallen across the road. A flash of lightning strikes, and Anton is struck in the head by a branch. He opens his eyes and addresses one of the officers in English, calling him a nickname he couldn’t possibly know. The truth is even more extraordinary: Anton isn’t actually Anton, but a long-missing English soldier. Look alike cousins Jack and Jim Laydon were presumed to have perished in a raid during the war. Cotterell Laydon, the present owner of Laydon Manor, is stunned to discover that one of his grandsons might be alive. But is he Jack or Jim? Now the long-lost Laydon must prove his identity before he can lay claim to the ancestral estate - and the wife who sees him as a complete stranger. Is it possible he isn’t a Laydon at all?
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1926
(In six months, Marion "Mally" Lee will wed the dashing Ro...)
In six months, Marion "Mally" Lee will wed the dashing Roger Mooring and become mistress of Curston, his family estate. Determined to enjoy her freedom before she becomes a married woman, Mally impulsively accepts a position as governess to the young daughter of a shipping magnate. But when she arrives at the Peterson townhouse in London, Mally has the strangest urge to flee. Sir George Peterson, whose wife left him for an itinerant artist, is an enigma. His sister, Lena Craddock, is nice enough, but Mally’s young charge, Barbara, hates Lena’s nephew, Paul, with a passion. When Mally is suddenly branded a thief and spy after valuable papers and a priceless diamond pendant disappear, she does the only thing she can: run away. With her fiancé believing the worst of her and private investigators hot on her trail, Mally goes on the lam, feeling like a fugitive from justice. But she’s stumbled upon a dangerous criminal conspiracy led by men desperate to get back the missing documents before a critical encrypted message is decoded.
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1927
(In 1917, after he's released from the hospital, John Wave...)
In 1917, after he's released from the hospital, John Waveney is headed back to the trenches in France when he decides to visit the land of his ancestors dating back to the Crusades. There, he meets a young girl who, upon learning he’s all alone in the world, tells him she’d be sorry if anything happened to him at the front. Nine years later, John returns to Waveney Hall to claim his legacy - and encounters an extended family of relatives he never knew about. But Anne Belinda, a distant cousin - the mysterious young girl he never forgot - has disappeared. No one at his ancestral estate will discuss her or explain why her father altered his will, leaving his entire estate to her twin sister, Jenny. Feeling a debt of loyalty to the girl who sent him off to battle with a kind word, John embarks on a search for Anne - but does the missing woman want to be found?
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1927
(Seven years ago, childhood friends and distant cousins El...)
Seven years ago, childhood friends and distant cousins Eleanor and David Fordyce fell in love and became engaged. But their families, thinking them too young for marriage, conspired to keep them apart. David was sent to America to study architecture; Eleanor left for India, where she married Cosmo Rayne. Now a widow, Eleanor returns to England, more ravishing than ever. But rumors - of a husband’s infidelity and nightly beatings - have followed her home. And David is harboring secrets of his own. When he sees a message in the newspaper, he confides in Eleanor. Is it possible? Is Erica Moore, his young wife who died at sea, still alive? And if so, why hasn’t she contacted David herself? The answers may lie with Folly March, a spirited nineteen-year-old who makes up stories and takes pleasure in playing pranks. Beloved British crime writer Patricia Wentworth plunges readers into a world of lies, romance, and mystery as David’s search leads him across London on a winding journey to a shocking truth.
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1928
(Charles Moray leaves home after being jilted by Margaret ...)
Charles Moray leaves home after being jilted by Margaret Langton on the eve of their wedding and returns four years later to find his home open and a strange meeting taking place. Watching through a childhood hideout, he sees a man in a grey mask talking to several different people - calling each by a number. When Charles hears them discussing "removing" a girl if a "certificate" is found, he is shocked. He is even more shocked when he recognizes one of the agents - his former fiancee. When he reads about Margot Standing, whose millionaire father dies leaving her inheritance in the balance because of a missing marriage certificate, he puts two and two together and approaches Miss Silver, a private investigator with a high success rate in missing jewelry. He is skeptical until Miss Silver astutely guesses he will not go to the police because of his former love.
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1928
(On a dark, foggy night, Hugo Ross encounters a beautiful ...)
On a dark, foggy night, Hugo Ross encounters a beautiful woman. She claims to be running away and begs Hugo not to tell anyone that he’s seen her. Before boarding her train, she warns him not to take the job he’s applying for: secretary to eccentric inventor Ambrose Minstrel. The train pulls away, and the stunning stranger is gone. Desperate for employment, Hugo ignores her warning and takes the job. He’s barely moved into Meade House when a message from Loveday Leigh is hand-delivered: He must leave immediately and burn the letter. When they finally meet again at Waterloo Station, Loveday is not the mysterious woman Hugo remembers. Odd happenings continue, and he enlists the help of the esteemed Benbow Smith, an enigmatic figure connected to London’s Foreign Office. Soon Hugo is caught up in an undercover plot involving governmental intrigue, industrial espionage, and stolen military secrets. With his own life on the line, how much is he willing to risk for his country?
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1929
(Carthew "Car" Fairfax has just been rejected from an adve...)
Carthew "Car" Fairfax has just been rejected from an advertising job when he comes face-to-face with an ex-flame. Three years after breaking off their affair, Car still pines for the beautiful, elegant Isobel Tarrant. Following their chance meeting, a stranger slips a note into his hand, offering Car the opportunity to earn five hundred pounds. But before Car can decide whether to pursue the mysterious offer, Fay Everitt shows up on his doorstep. Secretly married to Car’s former military buddy Peter Lymington, Fay is in trouble - and in desperate need of five hundred pounds. Then the gorgeous Anna Lang offers Car five hundred pounds if he’s willing to forge a check and go to prison. And now a fourth woman suddenly appears: Corinna Lee, the American cousin Car never knew he had... Everything is connected, if Car could only figure out how. Determined to help his friend’s wife, he plunges into a shadowy world of deceit and skullduggery where nothing is as it seems and one wrong move could cost him everything - including the woman he loves.
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1930
(The Coldstone weaves mystery and danger with an exciting ...)
The Coldstone weaves mystery and danger with an exciting love story. Suspense and romance unite in this novel of mayhem and adventure set in the English countryside from the author of the classic Miss Silver Mysteries.
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1930
(Austin Muir has just landed on a seemingly uninhabited So...)
Austin Muir has just landed on a seemingly uninhabited South Seas island when he meets a remarkable young woman. Valentine claims to have lived there for twenty years. She has no memory of the shipwreck of the Avronia because she was just a baby at the time. All she knows is that she was rescued and raised by Edward Bowden, the only other survivor. Valentine has no knowledge of the Great War, let alone the world beyond her remote desert island. With Edward now dead, Valentine must return to civilization and learn the ways of British society. She learns she’s due to come into a vast sum of money when she turns twenty-five, but since she was given up for dead, her inheritance passed to her cousin Eustace. Now that Valentine is back, Eustace will lose it all once her long-lost cousin comes of age. Stunned to discover that money seems to be the only thing that matters in this inscrutable new world, Valentine schemes to give the money back to Eustace. But when she finds a mysterious old letter from Edward - to be opened only in the event of deep unhappiness - she’ll reveal a long-concealed deception.
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1931
(Clandestine operative Benbow Smith recruits a former Secr...)
Clandestine operative Benbow Smith recruits a former Secret Service agent to bring down an enemy of the free world in this thriller from the author of the classic Miss Silver Mysteries.
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1931
(Due to his uncle's diabolical will, Jervis must marry wit...)
Due to his uncle's diabolical will, Jervis must marry within three months of his uncle's death, or the huge estate and vast fortune will go to his fiance, Rosamund. When Rosamund dumps him just two days before the wedding, Jervis must scramble to find someone else.
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1932
(Ten days ago, Jim Mackenzie was arrested and sentenced to...)
Ten days ago, Jim Mackenzie was arrested and sentenced to death, accused of engaging in counter-revolutionary activities. The Scottish political prisoner expects to die at the end of a Bolshevist bullet today. Instead, he’s given an unexpected reprieve. His life is now in the hands of his fiancée, Laura Cameron. On the day Jim is to be executed, Laura receives a visit from an engineer named Basil Stevens, who offers her the chance to save the man she loves. One of Laura’s distant relatives has died, leaving her the sole heir to his successful engineering combine. All she has to do is marry Stevens, whose real name is Vassili Stefanoff, and elect him to the board of directors, and her beloved Jim will go free. As Laura’s bargain with the devil thrusts her into grave peril - and the key to a top-secret invention falls into enemy hands - it’s now up to Mackenzie to save the woman he loves from having to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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1932
(A man survives a shipwreck - only to find his memory wipe...)
A man survives a shipwreck - only to find his memory wiped clean and a stranger at his bedside claiming to be his wife.
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1933
(Rosalind Denny, the American-born widow of the under secr...)
Rosalind Denny, the American-born widow of the under secretary for Foreign Affairs, is still grieving for her husband. Eighteen months ago, Gilbert Denny threw away a happy marriage and a promising political career by ending his life. But Rosalind doesn’t believe that Gilbert’s drowning was a suicide. In London, Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith is visited by Bernard Mannister, a distinguished member of parliament and president of the British Disarmament League. A confidential letter that could destroy lives and disrupt the precarious balance of Western power is missing. Mannister, like Denny and others before him, is being driven from public service - but why? With an intriguing cast of characters, including a talking parrot, a sleepwalker, and a psychic, Walk with Care is both a top-notch historical thriller and a revelatory glimpse into the inner workings of British intelligence.
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1933
(But Sarah Trent is determined to try. She has just been e...)
But Sarah Trent is determined to try. She has just been engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, whose mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident. Lucilla’s father died in the war, and his younger brother, Maurice, has been missing since 1918. Uncle Maurice’s disappearance isn’t the only mystery at the Red House. One night Sarah is awakened by a frightening noise. Something flings itself against her window and she hears the sounds of claws against glass. Then Holme Fallow, the estate where Lucilla was born - and where no one has lived since the war - is burgled. The only clue as to the culprit is a set of muddy footprints. Next someone tampers with the brakes on Lucilla’s bicycle, and she stumbles over a baluster rail. It’s soon clear to Sarah that someone is trying to kill the orphaned teenager, sole heir to Holme Fallow. Is it visiting American John Brown? Lucilla herself, playing a dangerous game? Or has someone else been patiently waiting for the perfect moment to strike? No matter the perpetrator, a ghost from the past could change everything.
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1934
(Ann Vernon is lunching at the Luxe when she overhears two...)
Ann Vernon is lunching at the Luxe when she overhears two people talking about someone who must be gotten out of the way. She has no idea that she’s that very someone! Against the advice of her boyfriend, Charles Anstruther, whose marriage proposal she’s just rejected, Ann accepts a position as secretary to an elderly woman. She accompanies Mrs. Halliday and her son, Jimmy, on a cruise, where she meets handsome, charming Gale Anderson. After a few days, the Emma puts in anchor at Loch Dhu, a remote Scottish island marked by sharp rocks, heather, and steep cliffs. Suspecting something is not right about Ann’s employers, Charles begins an unofficial investigation. He travels to Loch Dhu, only to discover there’s no way to get on the island. As the days count down to a wealthy man’s death, steps are taken to eliminate Ann before she can inherit the estate of Elias Paulett, the great-uncle she’s never met. And once the final piece of a monstrous scheme is set in motion, not even the man she loves may be able to save her.
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1934
(British operative Stephen Enderby is in Russia on a missi...)
British operative Stephen Enderby is in Russia on a mission of the utmost secrecy when he spies a woman in the freezing cold, standing on the parapet of a bridge. Her name, she tells him, is Elizabeth Radin. Her husband , Nicholas, was recently executed for being a counterrevolutionary. Forbidden to leave the country, she thought the only way out was to take her own life. At the risk of blowing his cover, Stephen convinces the beautiful English widow to come with him to a safe house. His mission compromised, his only hope is to continue his impersonation of a Russian peasant, with Elizabeth posing as his new bride. But she hasn’t told him everything. Before Nicolas died, he revealed the formula for a groundbreaking aeronautical invention that Elizabeth committed to memory. The Russians want the formula - and will stop at nothing to get it.
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1935
(An elegant English townhouse conceals a viper’s nest of g...)
An elegant English townhouse conceals a viper’s nest of greed and evil in this riveting tale of romantic suspense from the author of the classic Miss Silver Mysteries.
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1935
(William Ambrose Merewether altered his will just before h...)
William Ambrose Merewether altered his will just before his death, leaving his millions to descendants of his cousin Jane Lorimer, who may or may not still be alive. But the legacy hinges on one nonnegotiable condition. Across the channel, Shirley Dale struggles to make ends meet working for Mrs. Huddleston, a wealthy, self-indulgent woman who rarely leaves her house. Everything is fine, relatively speaking - until Shirley finds herself in possession of someone else’s purse. Then she’s accused of stealing sixpence and a valuable diamond brooch from her employer. Who is framing her and why? Terrified of being arrested, she flees to the rural village of Emshot, where her only surviving relative lives. But Shirley is confronted with an unwelcome surprise when she arrives at Acacia Cottage. With her freedom at stake, she turns to the only person she can trust: Anthony Leigh, Mrs. Huddleston’s nephew. But Anthony has every reason not to trust her. As a sinister plan gathers momentum, Shirley must clear her name and unmask the culprit before she loses her liberty and possibly her life.
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1936
(Frightened by anonymous messages that tell her that her e...)
Frightened by anonymous messages that tell her that her estranged, missing spy husband is still alive, Meg O'Hara asks her old friend, Bill, for assistance, and finds their investigation taking them into a shadowy and murderous underworld.
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1936
(Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith investigates the disapp...)
Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith investigates the disappearance of a bride-to-be - the latest in a series of bizarre abductions - in this thriller from the author of the classic Miss Silver Mysteries.
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1937
(Marion Grey is growing used to the idea that her husband ...)
Marion Grey is growing used to the idea that her husband will never leave prison. After the horrors of a very public trial she’s almost able to find relief in her resignation. But when new evidence suggests her husband may be innocent after all, she hires a professional - Miss Maud Silver - to clear his name. It begins with a chance encounter on a busy train, when a friend of Marion’s meets a half-mad woman who claims to know something of the Grey case. With her is a man who disappeared during the trial—and may have information that could set Marion’s husband free. But who is he, and where has he gone? To find out, demure governess-turned-detective Miss Silver must track him down before becoming a victim herself.
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1937
(The last thing London debutante Gay Hardwicke wants is to...)
The last thing London debutante Gay Hardwicke wants is to become involved in another one of her cousin’s messy jams. But Lady Sylvia Colesborough is in over her head this time: She claims she’s being blackmailed by the mysterious Mr. Zero. If she doesn’t steal important government papers from the safe of her politically connected husband, the distinguished Sir Francis, her gambling debts will be exposed. Gay’s reluctant attempts to help Sylvia backfire when a murder raises the stakes - and Gay’s boyfriend, Algy Somers, becomes the prime suspect. Enlisting the aid of her society friends, Gay races to clear Algy’s name and catch a cagey killer before her own days are numbered.
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1938
(The nightmare begins when James Elliot gets lost on a dar...)
The nightmare begins when James Elliot gets lost on a dark, foggy country road. When he stops at a house to ask for directions, a woman rushes out and tells him to run. Seconds later, shots are fired. After they escape the unknown shooter, Aspidistra Aspinall says she’s an orphan and has no idea who’s after her. She tells an incredible story about a dying aunt and a priceless diamond necklace. When they meet again at the home of James’s cousin, she goes by the name Sally West. But her terror is all too real: Someone is after her inheritance and is willing to kill for it. Soon after, a dead body turns up, but James may have been the intended target. Now he must unravel a brilliantly orchestrated scheme of avarice before a cunning killer claims one last victim.
https://www.amazon.com/Run-Patricia-Wentworth-ebook/dp/B01BXW8G2C/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Run%21+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580904786&s=books&sr=1-1
1938
(Ross Craddock's killer must have felt quite at home. Ther...)
Ross Craddock's killer must have felt quite at home. There was Lee Fenton, Ross's cousin, heard calling Ross "a swine" before sleepwalking (so she claimed) into the victim's flat. The spinster aunt, whom Ross was evicting, that just happened to see a figure fleeing the house. And there was the blood-smudged Mavis Grey; and Bobby Foster, Mavis's suitor with fingerprints everywhere. With so many clues and suspects throwing themselves at Inspector Lamb, how could he possibly notice the deadliest one of all?
https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Side-Patricia-Wentworth-ebook/dp/B07NSH6249/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Blind+Side+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580905677&s=books&sr=1-1
1939
(Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver must follow a trail o...)
Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver must follow a trail of poison-pen letters to save an heiress from murder. Rachel Treherne has always had a steady head on her shoulders; it’s why her late father named her the sole trustee of his considerable fortune. But the decision galled a number of Rachel’s relatives, including her married older sister, her socialist nephew, and her father’s ambitious young cousin. Rachel fears she may be overreacting to the anonymous letters she’s received threatening her life, but then someone tampers with the chocolates she bought herself. If her cousin hadn’t partaken first and noticed an unwholesome taste, who knows what may have happened? Miss Silver suspects someone in Rachel’s inner circle has grown tired of being a poor relation, and she travels incognito to the Treherne country home to unmask the culprit - before it’s too late - in this intriguing entry in the beloved series featuring a contemporary of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Lonesome Road is the 3rd book in the Miss Silver Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
https://www.amazon.com/Lonesome-Road-Miss-Silver-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0057K2LOG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Lonesome+Road+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580906846&s=books&sr=1-1
1939
(Peter Talbot is in Brussels tailing a dangerous con man w...)
Peter Talbot is in Brussels tailing a dangerous con man when the opportunity of a lifetime falls in his lap. His quarry dies, leaving behind a suitcase filled with money, coded messages, a passport, and a cryptic letter about a woman named Maud Millicent Simpson. Reborn as Spike Reilly - a.k.a. James Peter Reilly - a.k.a. Pierre Riel - Talbot follows a twisting trail that leads the undercover operative to an English country estate and into a deadly conspiracy of robbery and murder. Meanwhile, in London, Talbot’s uncle, Col. Frank Garrett, is probing a string of purloined masterpieces - the latest stolen from the Louvre. Scotland Yard flummoxed, it falls to the Foreign Office to bring the culprits to justice. As the parallel investigations converge, Garrett and his nephew match wits with a cunning and beautiful criminal who’s a brilliant master of disguise. And soon an innocent woman’s life is in danger.
https://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Stone-Frank-Garrett-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B01DLGKZ7M/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Rolling+Stone+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580905458&s=books&sr=1-1
1940
("I always get what I want." Thus spoke Lucas Dale, a weal...)
"I always get what I want." Thus spoke Lucas Dale, a wealthy man in his early forties who had come to live at King's Bourne, former family home of Susan Lennox. He means to have Susan as his wife, but she is already engaged. This does not deter him in his purpose and he resorts to trying to blackmail Susan to promise to marry him. He is murdered and suspicion falls on Susan's fiance who was heard to threaten his life.
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Pays-Piper-Patricia-Wentworth-ebook/dp/B07NJ4T6JQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Who+Pays+the+Piper%3F+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580905853&s=books&sr=1-1
1940
(While waiting for a train connection, Sarah Marlowe is dr...)
While waiting for a train connection, Sarah Marlowe is drawn into a conversation with an elderly woman named Emily who is also traveling alone. She tells Sarah an incredible tale of being entrusted with a package by a stranger dying of a stab wound. Soon afterward, on the train to London, Sarah discovers the same package in her own handbag. The next day, she learns Emily has been murdered. Beloved crime writer Patricia Wentworth fills us with romance, adventure, and gothic intrigue in this exciting thriller.
https://www.amazon.com/Weekend-Death-Patricia-Wentworth-ebook/dp/B07NRDDH5Z/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Weekend+with+Death+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580904890&s=books&sr=1-1
1941
(Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back ...)
Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back to London when, with a violent shudder of the train, a young woman is thrust into her compartment. She’s beautiful, well dressed, newly married, and wealthy - a lethal combination. In a state of shock, Lisle Jerningham explains that she fled her home in a hurry after overhearing a sinister conversation. Her new husband’s first wife died in an apparent accident, and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now, he’s broke again - and attempting to engineer a second convenient mishap. Miss Silver is unsure whether the drama is real or a figment of Lisle’s imagination - but if this frightened young lady is a target for murder, the killer will have to deal with the governess-turned-sleuth first.
https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Miss-Silver-Mysteries-Book-ebook/dp/B0057K2LRS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=In+the+Balance+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580906962&s=books&sr=1-1
1941
(Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incrimin...)
Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incriminating package in this gripping international thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Double agent Cornelius Roos is about to become dispensable to the Germans—until he reveals the existence of a recording that will guarantee the death of a high-ranking Nazi official if it finds its way into the hands of Hermann Goering. So Roos strikes a bargain: If he walks out of Gestapo headquarters alive, he will ensure that the compromising recording never reaches Goering. Meanwhile, in the Foreign Intelligence office in England, agent Antony Rossiter is interrogated about Roos, his older, adopted brother. A few days later, Rossiter parachutes into Holland to make contact with Roos. But when a brown paper parcel with Rossiter’s name on it is delivered to a British law firm, Rossiter’s fiancée, Delia Merridew, becomes an innocent pawn in a deadly game of international espionage and cold-blooded murder. Now it’s up to Scotland Yard Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott to ferret out the truth before a desperate enemy claims another victim. Pursuit of a Parcel is the 3rd book in the Ernest Lamb Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Parcel-Ernest-Lamb-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B01CTOTFUK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pursuit+of+a+Parcel+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580905924&s=books&sr=1-1
1942
(An amateur who happened on a career in theater, Tanis Lyl...)
An amateur who happened on a career in theater, Tanis Lyle has just finished filming her first motion picture. The young woman has electric charm, and seems to hypnotize all who meet her - including Laura Fane, a distant cousin who, because of a long-standing family feud, has never been allowed to meet her glamorous relative. But while all of London seems to love Tanis, her powerful effect on men causes some to despise her. And when the actress’s life is cut short by an unknown hand, investigator Miss Maud Silver will have to hunt for a killer.
https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Shawl-Miss-Silver-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0057K2LTG/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=The+Chinese+Shawl+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580907043&s=books&sr=1-2
1943
(When her fiance Giles disappears in a shipwreck, Meade Un...)
When her fiance Giles disappears in a shipwreck, Meade Underwood asks Miss Silver to take on the case.
https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Deals-Death-Patricia-Wentworth-ebook/dp/B07NB11X3N/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Miss+Silver+Deals+with+Death+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580907189&s=books&sr=1-1
1943
(New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family....)
New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing from tradition, James Paradine makes a speech that changes the course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to confess and return the papers. A few minutes after twelve James Paradine is dead. It is left to Miss Silver to disentangle the threads that bind the Paradine family in a strange web of dislike, hatred and fear.
https://www.amazon.com/Clock-Strikes-Twelve-Miss-Silver-ebook/dp/B082YB8S18/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=The+Clock+Strikes+Twelve+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580907222&s=books&sr=1-4
1944
(It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been ...)
It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been working for the government on a secret project for years. Finally he is ready to hand over the formula. But the next morning he is dead. It looks like suicide. Only Miss Silver knows it's murder.
https://www.amazon.com/Key-Miss-Silver-Mystery/dp/0340689722/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Key+Patricia+Wentworth&qid=1580907381&s=books&sr=1-1
1944
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beneath-Hunters-Moon-Patricia-Wentworth/dp/B0007IUYTC
1945
(This classic courtroom drama alternates between a murder ...)
This classic courtroom drama alternates between a murder trial and the events leading up to the crime. With mystery, motive, and an abundance of suspects, Silence in Court, from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries, will keep readers guessing right until the end.
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1947
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1953
Patricia Wentworth was born on November 10, 1878, in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. She was the daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Edmond Roche Elles.
Patricia Wentworth was educated privately, and then at Blackheath High School.
Patricia Wentworth's first novel, a historical romance, was published in the main journal for the British Raj in Punjab, the Civil and Military Gazette. A Marriage under the Terror was a tale of the French Revolution. British readers were familiar with this history from reading other fictional accounts such as Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) and Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (1859).
A Marriage under the Terror tells of a savage follower of Mara who pursues an innocent convent-raised aristocrat who narrowly escapes the guillotine. Critics found the novel exciting and well-plotted, but faulted the immature style. Elies published five more historical romances, under titles such as The Devil's Wind and The Fire Within, and a book of verse titled A Child's Rhyme Book. Following her second marriage, she began writing thrillers such as The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith. But it is for her "Miss Silver Mysteries," written under the pseudonym "Patricia Wentworth" that she is best known.
Elies created the character of Miss Maude Silver not long after the marriage. A dowdy, retired governess in dull, old- fashioned dresses and with pince-nez and knitting needles, this creation of Wentworth’s defies the expectations of her appearance. No dithering old biddy, Miss Silver has a mind like a steel trap but uses her appearance to disarm her adversaries. She receives her clients in the parlor room of her modest but comfortable apartment. The Victorian furniture is threadbare, and the prints on the wall reveal an utter lack of artistic sophistication, but the framed photographs that cover the mantle, bookcase, and elsewhere depict Miss Silver’s exciting life as a private investigator.
(Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incrimin...)
1942(A thrilling tale of love, adventure, and survival during ...)
1912(Frightened by anonymous messages that tell her that her e...)
1936(When Chloe begins to uncover Mitchell Dane’s true motives...)
1925(Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith investigates the disapp...)
1937(Clandestine operative Benbow Smith recruits a former Secr...)
1931(In 1917, after he's released from the hospital, John Wave...)
1927(Charles Moray leaves home after being jilted by Margaret ...)
1928(An elegant English townhouse conceals a viper’s nest of g...)
1935(Young Sally Meredith is distracted from her jam recipes b...)
1924(William Ambrose Merewether altered his will just before h...)
1936(Due to his uncle's diabolical will, Jervis must marry wit...)
1932(British operative Stephen Enderby is in Russia on a missi...)
1935(Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back ...)
1941(While waiting for a train connection, Sarah Marlowe is dr...)
1941(Ten days ago, Jim Mackenzie was arrested and sentenced to...)
1932(Ann Vernon is lunching at the Luxe when she overhears two...)
1934(In six months, Marion "Mally" Lee will wed the dashing Ro...)
1927(A man survives a shipwreck - only to find his memory wipe...)
1933(Rosalind Denny, the American-born widow of the under secr...)
1933(The last thing London debutante Gay Hardwicke wants is to...)
1938(It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been ...)
1944(Seven years ago, childhood friends and distant cousins El...)
1928(Carthew "Car" Fairfax has just been rejected from an adve...)
1930(Austin Muir has just landed on a seemingly uninhabited So...)
1931("The Fire Within" is the first novel by Patricia Wentwort...)
1913(An amateur who happened on a career in theater, Tanis Lyl...)
1943(Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver must follow a trail o...)
1939(Peter Talbot is in Brussels tailing a dangerous con man w...)
1940(This classic courtroom drama alternates between a murder ...)
1947(When her fiance Giles disappears in a shipwreck, Meade Un...)
1943(Marion Grey is growing used to the idea that her husband ...)
1937(The nightmare begins when James Elliot gets lost on a dar...)
1938(James Waring stares into the darkness of a cavern at a re...)
1924(A classic historical novel which takes place during the F...)
1910(The Coldstone weaves mystery and danger with an exciting ...)
1930(A girl, clad only in a night dress, is found walking in h...)
1923(On a dark, foggy night, Hugo Ross encounters a beautiful ...)
1929(New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family....)
1944(Ross Craddock's killer must have felt quite at home. Ther...)
1939(They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Gr...)
1925(Anton Blum is the strongest man in Konigswald. But the Ge...)
1926(But Sarah Trent is determined to try. She has just been e...)
1934("I always get what I want." Thus spoke Lucas Dale, a weal...)
1940Patricia Wentworth's first husband, Lieutenant Colonel George Dillon, was an older man with three sons. He died in 1906, making Elies a twenty-eight year old widow. It would be fourteen years before she married again. She married her second husband, Lieutenant Colonel George Oliver Turnbull, in 1920. The couple had one daughter.
