The Chinese Shawl

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444715712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way. Her cousin Laura hated her. Most women did. But men found her irresistible and she used them mercilessly. So when Tanis was found murdered there seemed to be any number of suspects on hand. But Miss Silver had her own suspicions . . .

The Chinese Shawl

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453223665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth “who has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot,” Miss Silver investigates a murder that may have its roots in a new romance—or an old family feud (Manchester Evening News). An amateur who happened on a career in theater, Tanis Lyle has just finished filming her first motion picture. The young woman has electric charm, and seems to hypnotize all who meet her—including Laura Fane, a distant cousin who, because of a long-standing family feud, has never been allowed to meet her glamorous relative. But while all of London seems to love Tanis, her powerful effect on men causes some to despise her. And when the actress’s life is cut short by an unknown hand, investigator Miss Maud Silver will have to hunt for a killer.

The Chinese Shawl

Author: Dora Amy Elles
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Chinese Shawl" by Dora Amy Elles. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Grey Mask

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453223622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
Governess-turned-detective Miss Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime. Never one for the heroic, Charles’s first instinct is to let the police settle it. But then he hears her voice. Margaret, his long lost love, is part of the gang. To unravel their diabolical plot, he contacts Miss Maud Silver, a onetime governess who applies reason to solve crimes and face the dangers of London’s underworld.

Dark Threat

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453223711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
DIVMiss Silver visits the country to keep an eye on a friend who may be in peril/divDIV/divDIVIt is time for Judy to get out of London. Her sister and brother-in-law have just perished in an air raid, leaving her in charge of their four-year-old daughter, and Judy wants no more to do with death. She arranges for work in a piece of the countryside untouched by the war: a charming manor called Pilgrim’s Rest. But it may be that she has more to fear than the Blitz./divDIV /divDIVWhen she tells Frank Abbott of her plans, he warns her that strange things have been happening at Pilgrim’s Rest. The family patriarch is recently dead of mysterious circumstances, and his heir has just suffered a series of near-fatal accidents. He cannot sway Judy, for she needs the work. But he does convince the governess-turned-detective Maud Silver to follow Judy to the village, to be on hand in case country living turns dangerous./div

Everfair

Author: Nisi Shawl
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076533805X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.

Wicked Uncle

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: HarperTorch
ISBN: 9780061044014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
After Gregory Porlock invites a group of unacquainted friends to his house party, the blackmailing host is found dead from a stab wound in the back, and Miss Silver must discover which guest made certain the party was over. Reissue.

The Chinese Lady

Author: Nancy E. Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197581986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
In 1834, a Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America as both a prized guest and an advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional curiosity with bound feet and a celebrity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. This first biography of Afong Moy explores how she shaped Americans' impressions of China, while living as a stranger in a foreign land.

The Catherine Wheel

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453223762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
DIVWhen a complicated inheritance case turns deadly, Miss Silver suspects an entire family /divDIVAn advertisement appears in the newspaper, asking for genealogical information from descendants of a certain Jeremiah Taverner, who died in long-ago 1888. It looks like an ordinary notice by a curious scholar, but the question is not nearly as simple as that. The man behind the ad is a Taverner himself: estranged, wealthy, and looking for a suitable relation to name in his will./divDIV /divDIVThe case grows complicated quickly, for there are many who bear the name, several illegitimate relatives aside. Old feuds reemerge now that there is a whiff of money in the air, and the extended family converges to squabble over the cash. It is not long before there is one less Taverner, and Miss Silver, the genteel detective, is called in to find out who put the knife in his back./div

The Clock Strikes Twelve

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This mystery thriller features the Paradine family, who experience a most unpleasant start to their New Year as, on the stroke of midnight, the head of the family, Mr James Paradine, is found murdered. It transpires that he has previously upset another family member and that this may have led to his unfortunate demise. Miss Silver, the rather aristocratic detective, is called on to unravel the family secrets and the murder.