Miss Silver Comes to Stay (Paperback)

by Patricia Wentworth (Author)

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Product Description
When James Lessiter returns to London to claim his family estate and is found bludgeoned to death, Miss Silver must investigate numerous suspects, including a jilted girlfriend, an angry husband, and a widow, to discover which suspect had the urge to murder. Reissue.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm) (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061044040
• ISBN-13: 978-0061044045
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,076,526 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Miss Silver to the rescue, April 7, 2000

By	Anna (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miss Silver Comes to Stay (Hardcover)

Funny how in small English villages, people's memory seem to be especially long and sharp. When the wealthy James Lessiter is murdered, there's no lack of suspects, including the girlfriend he dumped many years ago.

Greatly entertaining, with surprising plots and ending.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Like a Cozy Village Homicide, January 27, 2004

By	Sires (It's a Toss Up Right Now) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Miss Silver Comes to Stay (Paperback)

Inviting Miss Silver for a visit seems tantemount to requesting a murder. In this post WW II story, a quiet English village is thrown into a tizzy when the local grande dame dies and her son returns to arrange her affairs. There is also a plethora of people who have a reason for wanting to see him dead.

Miss Silver in a happy coincidence is visiting an old school chum in the same village; therefore, she is near at hand to use her skills for ferreting out the truth, when a murder does occur.

Published not long after the end of WW II, Ms. Wentworth does a better than average job in this particular mystery. Her starcrossed couples are nicely drawn and the mystery is not badly set up.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "The girl was excessively pretty.", December 28, 2005

By	C. Gilbert "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Miss Silver Comes to Stay (written in 1949) is the 15th in the Miss Silver series. Like many of the books from the Golden Age authors, it is as much an exploration of the changes morals of post-war British life as it is a mystery novel.

In Miss Silver Comes to Stay, the lead character goes to visit an old friend from school in the sleepy town of Melling. What she finds instead is a story of a prodigal son, star-crossed lovers, and a series of unfortunate events that lead inevitably to murder.

This book is a good example of the strong elements of Wentworth as a writer. I read it with a great deal of pleasure, and suspect that other fans of the Golden Age Detective writers will do so as well. Wentworth may not be as strong as some of her contemporaries (I prefer Christie, Marsh, and Sayers myself) but her books deserve their longevity and would warmly recommend them to mystery fans.