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This was a very good Miss Silver book. The funny part of this series is that she always seems to get one step ahead of the police in solving crimes. Delightful character development and dialog. It's a classic mid-20th century British country house cozy mystery, with a clever solution.
Oh, well, this is just another excellent Wentworth mystery. :-)
One of the Miss Silver mysteries. Lois Latter, a scheming young wife of an older man, is determined to remake his household in her image - very upsetting to the loyal retainers and her husband, who doesn't like change. Someone finds a way to poison her, and Miss Silver is called. A nice classic English country house mystery. I made an effort not to notice when Wentworth writes Miss Silver coughing before speaking several times per page, but I wasn't entirely successful. Good mystery but the coughing quirk means I won't search out more of these. No doubt it would not irritate everyone.
A great British mystery novel. No one could be more soothing than little old Miss Silver, the spinster detective who never seems to get to an English country house in time to prevent mayhem but is handy at nabbing the responsible person afterward.
When Lois Latter visits a fortune teller in London she is warned to be careful of poison. No one seriously heeds this admonishment until shortly afterward when she suffers several brief bouts of nausea. These attacks lead her doting husband, James Latter, to arrange a consultation with Miss Silver. But his concern cannot protect Lois from herself. Recently married Lois has just become mistress of Latter End, her husband's ancestral home and she is determined to carry on with plans to make dramatic adjustments in the staff and running of the household. Disregarding the advice of both James's cousin Antony with whom Lois at one time had been romantically involved and his stepsister Julia, who is in love with Antony now, Lois's manipulatoins make her many enemies. Her death by poison brings Miss Silver ack onto the scene. And Miss Silver's reassuring presence may be the only way to sift through the tangled emotions that mask the mystery of who murdered Lois Latter.
When Lois Latter visits a fortune teller in London she is warned to be careful of poison. No one seriously heeds this admonishment until shortly afterward when she suffers several brief bouts of nausea. These attacks lead her doting husband, James Latter, to arrange a consultation with Miss Silver. But his concern cannot protect Lois from herself. Recently married Lois has just become mistress of Latter End, her husband's ancestral home and she is determined to carry on with plans to make dramatic adjustments in the staff and running of the household. Disregarding the advice of both James's cousin Antony with whom Lois at one time had been romantically involved and his stepsister Julia, who is in love with Antony now, Lois's manipulatoins make her many enemies. Her death by poison brings Miss Silver ack onto the scene. And Miss Silver's reassuring presence may be the only way to sift through the tangled emotions that mask the mystery of who murdered Lois Latter.
