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Lonesome Road (Miss Silver #3)
A terrified young woman asks Miss Silver for help unmasking someone who has threatened her lifeRachel Traherne does not want to meet Maud Silver. She does not want to tell her that someone has threatened her life, because she does not want that dreadful fact to be true. But see Miss Silver she must, for the stout, old-fashioned detective is the only person in London who ma...more
ebook, 310 pages
Published
June 28th 2011
by Open Road
(first published 1939)
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Rachel Traherne has a complicated life, thanks to the father who left her in charge of the family fortune, with orders to keep it out of unworthy family hands as she sees fit. Now almost middle-aged, her family keeps up a constant barrage of requests for funds, and considers her large country house as quite their own, staying for long and frequent intervals. Worst of all, though, Rachel thinks one of them is trying to kill her. Unable to support the constant fear, but equally unable to bring in...more
This is the third book in a series of 32 novels written between 1929 and 1961. "Lonesome Road" dates back to the late 1930s and the writing reflects that. There is no graphic sex, gratuitous violence, foul language, forensic detail or any technology to speak of. It's a mystery of the cozy subgenre and has a nice balance of plot and character. The detective is Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess. In the first books of the series, there's a tendency to make fun of her in a gentle way. The first...more
this book introduced me to Miss Silver, an "older" genteel retired governess who now acts as a private investigator in pre-WWII London. This is not the beginning of the series, which was written in 1929; this book is from 1939, but still, it is a refreshing change from so many mystery books published today, with no sex, no foul language, just an intelligent woman who uses her people skills to help others in a bind. can't wait to read some more in this series!
This is one of the miss Silver books stocked by my local library, so needless to say I've read it dozens of times and it's always the fallback book when there's nothing else to read. And it never disappoints. Rachael's blossoming romance is delectable, and the danger at the end is terrifying.
The third Miss Silver mystery is better than the second. The wily middle aged detective and her knitting needles takes a more central role in the glamorous 1930's plot line, still well-seasoned with colorful characters & unlikely story elements. As good as a black & white noir film.
I wish there were a 3.5 for Patricia Wentworth. They are very solid mysteries, but I always find myself feeling so frustrated by how weak the heroines act and feel, and how the male hero(s) is always kind of a violent caveman.
Typical rich English countryside mansion with multiple characters that could be responsible for the mystery.
As good as the second, though quite a lot of characters to keep straight, and lower on action. Am looking forward to more of this series.
Compelling whodunit. One of the best Miss Silver books.
Overall, I'd call this book anticlimactic. There were a lot of conversations that didn't add any suspense to the story, and nobody actually got murdered. It was more of a romance than a mystery, and perhaps should have been written so. I like Patricia Wentworth, but this book just seemed to drag on.
This is the first book in the Miss Silver series that features Miss Silver in a more prominent role. I thoroughly enjoyed the mystery. It was quite thrilling.
All of these mysteries are fast-paced and highly entertaining-- such great British country-house fare!
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Patricia Wentworth--born Dora Amy Elles--was a British crime fiction writer.
She was educated privately and at Blackheath High School in London. After the death of her first husband, George F. Dillon, in 1906, she settled in Camberley, Surrey. She married George Oliver Turnbull in 1920 and they had one daughter.
She wrote a series of 32 classic-style whodunnits featuring Miss Silver, the first of wh...more
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She was educated privately and at Blackheath High School in London. After the death of her first husband, George F. Dillon, in 1906, she settled in Camberley, Surrey. She married George Oliver Turnbull in 1920 and they had one daughter.
She wrote a series of 32 classic-style whodunnits featuring Miss Silver, the first of wh...more
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