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Pilgrim's Rest

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13th December 2007

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340253571

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Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend, Detective Sergeant Abbott tells him that, having been left the custody of her motherless little niece, she is taking a domestic job in the country with a family named Pilgrim. Frank is appalled, mysterious deaths have been taking place there. A curse is on the house of Pilgrim’s Rest and by the time Miss Silver investigates she has four murders to solve.

Reviews

Andrew Taylor
A particular favourite
<i>Daily Mail</I>
Miss Silver is marvellous
<i>Alfred Hitchcock magazine</I>
. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery
<i>Manchester Evening News</I>
Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot
<i>Daily Telegraph</I>
Miss Wentworth is a first rate story-teller
<i>Observer</I>
You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver
<i>The Scotsman</I>
Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying
Paula Gosling
Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything