When she found the body of her beloved Uncle Jonathan, Georgina instinctively stooped to pick up the revolver, thus becoming the prime suspect. Georgina stood to inherit a large fortune when her uncle died. But her uncle had a second secret will and the beneficiary is the wide-eyed ingenue Mirrie Fields. But there was also the puzzle of the missing fingerprint. It was the showpiece of Uncle Jonathan's collection. He had acquired it from a self-confessed murderer, who was still at large. When the old man was shot, the print had been torn from its album. Was the missing fingerprint the clue to the murderer's identity? Maud Silver is determined to find out.
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'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.' -- The Observer 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' -- Manchester Evening News 'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' -- Scotsman
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About the Author
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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Miss Silver does it again!,
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This review is from: Fingerprint (Hardcover)
Frank Abbott goes to Deeping with a friend for a dance and is also intrigued by the famous Fingerprint collection at the same manor house. When the owner is murdered, a young heiress usurps the former heiress' position, the new will is found burned and the mysterious Fingerprint of a confessed but unknown killer is missing, Detective Inspector Abbott begins to sift through the clues. Fortunately his 'Revered Perceptress' decides to visit Deeping and logically and systematically begins to identify the murderer or murderess. Great Miss Silver story!
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Wills, young love, deception and red herrings.,
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In other words a typical Miss Siver mystery. I did not enjoy this one as much though because there really was not much of a mystery. We knew almost from the beginning who killed Uncle Jonathan. But Miss Wentworth's characters are really so wonderful, and that is what is rewarding about reading these stories. She stereotypes to some extent, but the characters still seem so real. Her portrayal of young Mirrie is quite wonderful. In this book Miss Silver is called in when a young woman is accused of killing her uncle when he is found shot dead in his study. She certainly had motive, but no one believed that Georgina had it in her. Miss Silver doesn't either and it doesn't take her long to determine who did the shooting. I'm almost at the end of reading Miss Silver mysteries, and perhaps it's time. I have enjoyed it, but they get a bit repetitive after a time.
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