Patricia Wentworth

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

Twelve-year-old Peter Waring is an orphan with an assortment of relatives who don't quite know what to do with him. But Peter's concern is for Rose Ellen, the little girl his mother took in before she died, and for whom none of his relations feel any responsibility....

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

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....

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....

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....

It is a black Chinese cabinet decorated with figures that once ignited little Chloe Dane's imagination. It was in the drawing-room of her family home, Danesborough. Later, it held secrets that shamed and sickened her....

Hugo Ross is perfect for the job as irascible inventor Ambrose Minstrel’s new secretary: young, completely inexperienced, and with an occasional stutter that makes him seem somewhat dim—a mug, in fact. But from his first day, odd things begin to happen.

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....

The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now it looked like it was harbouring a murderer....

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

Jane is broke, she's just lost her job and her landlady has kicked her out. When an amorous young man approaches her on a park bench it soon becomes clear that he has mistaken her for her cousin Renata. Their mothers were identical twins....

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

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....

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

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

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....

Timid Renata Molloy is in mortal peril after overhearing details of a breathtaking conspiracy. But her courageous and near-identical cousin Jane Smith—homeless and just two-and-elevenpence away from the workhouse—is willing to take her place....

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

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