Mary Stokes was walking through Dead Man's Copse one evening when she saw, in the beam of a torch, the corpse of a young woman dressed in a black coat, black gloves, no hat and an eternity ring set with diamonds in her ear. But when she and Detective Sergeant Frank Abbott went back to the wood the body had vanished. This would have been mystery enough for Miss Silver to solve if a woman had not also reported that her lodger had gone out on Friday dressed in a black coat, black beret, black shoes and large hoop earrings 'set all round with little diamonds like those eternity rings.' She never came back...
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Praise for Patricia Wentworth: 'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Silver is marvellous' -- Daily Mail 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' -- Manchester Evening News 'I like Wentworth very much - she captures the mores of pre-war middle class England perfectly, and she writes rather better than Christie. They are romantic cosies, of course, but with an edge to them and an intelligence to the writing that has lasted.' -- Andrew Taylor 'You can't go wrong with Maud Silver' -- Observer
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Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The eternity earrings case,
By Michele L. Worley (Kingdom of the Mouse, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eternity Ring: A Miss Silver Mystery (Paperback)
Frank Abbott, that scion of the English gentry who was cut out of his grandmother's will when he joined the police force, has for years sat at his esteemed preceptress' feet: those of Maud Silver, governess-turned-private investigator. In the current instance, his own family is involved - not just one of the regiment of cousins scattered up and down the country, but his cousin Cecily, whose father is the closest thing Frank has to his own late father.Before anyone gets the wrong impression, Cecily is already married, although she separated from her husband Grant a few months after the wedding and won't say why. The reader and Grant have an extra piece of information - she's convinced he married her for her money - but we, at least, don't know why. Cecily, as the only member of the family with whom old Lady Evelyn Abbott *didn't* quarrel, seems to be the unlucky one. Money hasn't brought her happiness, especially given the other part of her inheritance - the old lady's belief that everyone close to you will eventually turn out to be after your money. In the end - or rather, the beginning - it isn't Cecily who's murdered, and the motive doesn't seem to be money - not directly. Mary Stokes, a not-so-nice-girl, doesn't seem to be lying when she says she found a corpse in the woods wearing eternity earrings, but the cops can't find it. Most likely, it ties up with the disappearance of Louise Rogers, a penniless refugee in these post-WWII days, who was looking for the British soldier who stole everything she had during the war. If she found him, there aren't many suspects that she could have met... We are given a much better insight into Abbott's character and background: why he joined the police force instead of reading law, and why he has such a wide sardonic streak. (Ironically enough, he even looks like Lady Evelyn.)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not my favourite Miss Silver mystery.,
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This review is from: Eternity Ring: A Miss Silver Mystery (Paperback)
This wasn't the best Miss Silver mystery that I've read. First of all we hardly see Miss Silver at all, and she isn't the one who actually solves this case. A lot of the action takes place without her presence. Since I read Miss Silver to see her sharp mind in action, that was a disappointment. Also, the mystery wasn't too hard to figure out, so maybe they didn't need Miss Silver's razor-sharp intelligence for this one. It starts with a village woman seeing a man dragging what was obviously a dead woman's body in the night, but there was no body to find afterwards, so no one really believed her until she turns up dead too. Frank and Miss Silver set out to find the first woman's body. As in all Miss Silver books there is a love interest, but this has a bit of a twist since it involves a separated married couple. A bit disappointing, this one.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very nice book.,
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Fine book in excellent condition and came VERY fast!
A Trade paperback which I didn't realize. My fault for not checking. Many thanks.
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