Out of the Past Author:Patricia Wentworth Out of the past came Alan Field, charming, elegant-and a blackmailer. His ex-fiance, the girl he had left at the altar, Carmona Leigh, her pretty but indiscreet friend Pippa Maybury, the elegant, austere Adela Castleton, even his aunt, Esther Field-they all had something to hide, and between them they were going to make Alan Field rich. Until he... more » was stabbed to death in a beach hut. It was up to Miss Maud Silver, of the clicking knitting needles and the ice-cold intellect, to sort out the killer from a snarled tangle of suspects.« less