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The Catherine-Wheel
Patricia Wentworth
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Description for The Catherine-Wheel
Paperback. One of the mistresses of classic crime fiction, Patricia Wentworth returns with a classic Miss Silver mystery in stunning new packaging. Series: A Miss Silver Mystery. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 is 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 them had been hideously murdered, bringing the inn's stormy past ... Read more
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 is 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 them had been hideously murdered, bringing the inn's stormy past ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
New
Series
Miss Silver Series
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340767740
SKU
V9780340767740
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Patricia Wentworth
Patricia Wentworth was born in Uttarakhand, India but as a young girl moved to London to study at Blackheath High School for Girls. After writing several romances she turned her hand to crime fiction. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in 1961, and is recognised as one of the mistresses of classic ... Read more
Reviews for The Catherine-Wheel
. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery
Alfred Hitchcock Magazine
Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot
Manchester Evening News
I always thought them rather better than 'Miss Marple' and certainly very well written.
Mary Stewart
I ... Read more
Alfred Hitchcock Magazine
Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot
Manchester Evening News
I always thought them rather better than 'Miss Marple' and certainly very well written.
Mary Stewart
I ... Read more