In the Balance
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
The Delightful Miss Silver solves Great Mysteries.
Patricia Wentworth’s “Miss Silver” mysteries hold a special place in the heart of, primarily, women mystery readers. Writing in the Golden Age of mysteries, her sleuth, Maud Silver, is a retired governess who has started her own private detective agency. Her mysteries and the inspectors she works with all have a similar “footprint “, in the same vein as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple’s mysteries. I have a full set in my library, but can no longer read them due to aging eyesight! Imagine my delight when I found them available on Kindle. There I can blow up the type size and read tp my heart’s content. I advise everyone who loves a good mystery series (very difficult to find today) follow her from first to last book. See how they wrote em in the 1920’s thru the1950's. Maudie and her knitting needles will keep you up late at night!