The Catherine Wheel [Paperback]

Patricia Wentworth (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: Pyramid Books (1973)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000Y96NIA
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,029,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Smugglers and Secret Passages!, January 6, 2005

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S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Catherine Wheel: A Miss Silver Mystery (Paperback)

This is an enjoyable Miss Silver Mystery. As usual we have Ms. Wentworth's motley crew of characters that she depicts so well. We have the remarkable Miss Silver who has been asked by Chief Inspector Lamb to pay a visit to an old inn called the Chatherine-Wheel. The police have been watching this inn for a long time because of rumours of smuggling, jewel theft and drug trafficking. It's not long after Miss Silver gets there that a murder occurs, and Miss Silver and Frank Abbott are in a race against time to prevent more killings. There is nothing that the crooks that use the old inn for their illegal activities will stop at to keep their secrets safe. The pace in the book is more urgent than usual in a Miss Silver mystery, and the story is exciting. I enjoyed this book. And of course, there are Ms. Wentworth's wonderful characterizations to help it along. She makes her characters so realistic and none more so than in this book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Serenity in a spooky place., August 15, 2000

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Bonita Kale (Cleveland OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Catherine-Wheel (A Miss Silver Mystery) (Hardcover)

Not as well put together as some Miss Silver mysteries, this one still has our friend with the fast knitting needles and the steel-trap mind, this time in a spooky old posting-house. Secret passages, smugglers, and of course, Young Love (in duplicate) make for an enjoyable read, even if there's a plot problem here or there.