Patricia Wentworth

Hugo Ross is perfect for the job as irascible inventor Ambrose Minstrel’s new secretary: young, completely inexperienced, and with an occasional stutter that makes him seem somewhat dim—a mug, in fact. But from his first day, odd things begin to happen.

Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him? For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity....

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....

Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over....

The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now it looked like it was harbouring a murderer....

Twelve-year-old Peter Waring is an orphan with an assortment of relatives who don't quite know what to do with him. But Peter's concern is for Rose Ellen, the little girl his mother took in before she died, and for whom none of his relations feel any responsibility....

On vacation in a tiny village, Miss Silver investigates a murder with a decades-old motive....

Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way.....

Tilling Green was a charming little village nestling in the Ledshire countryside. Not at all the sort of place you would expect to find an anonymous letter writer....

Miss Silver joins a friend from Scotland Yard to investigate a suspicious suicide....

The engagement of effervescent Mally Lee to handsome, well-connected Roger Mooring is not going well. They quarrel constantly and Mally's idea is to spend time apart and delay the wedding....

When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underwood is left in the company of a middle-aged aunt with nothing but a monotonous round of bridge parties....

Amabel Grey, a widow with a modest income, needs money. Fast. She overhears a client requesting the lawyer find someone to live in his Dower House. The catch? Previous tenants have been driven away by strange happenings....

Bill Waring went to America with a bright future ahead of him. In London, he had a promising career and the love of a young beauty, Lila Dryden, and there were plans for marriage....

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea....

As a mute, burly German peasant is helping British soldiers move a fallen tree, he's struck on the head. When he regains consciousness he calls out to the astonished Major Manning, using his nickname "Monkey"—in perfect English....

Miss Silver helps a woman with no memory reconstruct a terrible crime....

When a question of inheritance turns fatal, Miss Silver searches for the killer....

Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother seldom visits the gazebo - yet she is found dead in it one morning....

The two Miss Pilgrims, Columba and Janette, think its unwise to leave their fine ancestral home, Pilgrim's Rest....