The Catherine-Wheel
$34.57
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2000
Summary
There was a certain heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top. The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now looked like it was harbouring a murderer.
It had begun with an advertisement in the paper requesting descendants of the late innkeeper, Jeremiah Taverner, to stay for a weekend at the inn. They had arrived, a mixed assortment, to the family reunion eager to discover the secrets of their ancestry. But one of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340767740 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034076774X |
| Author: | Patricia Wentworth |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2000 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 110mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Miss Silver Series |
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You can’t go wrong with Maud Silver - Observer
Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller - Daily TelegraphMiss Silver is marvellous - Daily MailI like Wentworth very much - she captures the mores of pre-war middle class England perfectly, and she writes rather better than Christie. They are romantic cosies, of course, but with an edge to them and an intelligence to the writing that has lasted. - Andrew TaylorI always thought them rather better than ‘Miss Marple’ and certainly very well written. - Mary StewartMiss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot - Manchester Evening News… some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery - Alfred Hitchcock MagazineAbout The Author
Patricia Wentworth
Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime.
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