Miss Silver Series 8-10
By Patricia Wentworth
- Release Date: 2025-11-04
- Genre: Cozy Mysteries
Description
Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver Series continues with The Clock Strikes Twelve , The Key , and She Came Back (also known as The Traveller Returns, each blending classic country-house intrigue with Miss Maud Silver’s calm intelligence and keen moral sense. In The Clock Strikes Twelve, a wealthy patriarch summons his family on New Year’s Eve to confront one of them over betrayal—but by midnight, he’s dead. Miss Silver’s quiet persistence reveals a web of greed and guilt beneath the family’s respectability. The Key centers on a wartime murder in a rural village involving lost papers, secret identities, and the fragile bonds of trust during chaos; Miss Silver’s insight cuts through fear and confusion to restore order. In She Came Back, a woman believed dead in wartime France reappears, only to find suspicion and danger waiting. Miss Silver unravels a complex story of identity, deception, and betrayal. These novels capture Wentworth at her best—combining human emotion, suspense, and moral clarity. Miss Silver, knitting serenely through every crisis, represents both compassion and intellect, revealing how truth and justice emerge quietly, even in the shadow of war and deceit.
