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Sept 25: Lonesome Road (#3 Miss Silver Mysteries) by Patricia Wentworth
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So my first ever Miss Silver, and I really enjoyed it. Was it a Miss Marple, no, but to be honest it wasn't that far off. It was a great story , well written with some interesting characters. The one point I would make is that unlike with Miss Marple (sorry to keep harking on about her) whom to me looks like Joan Hickson , so I can hear her and see her any time she is mentioned, well with Miss Silver even after a whole book I am still in the dark as to what she really looks like. Is that a faili
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An excellent whodunnit in the Miss Silver series. Such knowledge of a range of character types and tensions within an extended family group. Is one of them trying to kill our heroine, who has control of the family fortune, or are there other motives. Only Miss Silver, brought into the house as an old acquaintance, can solve the problem, or can she?
The GR blurb:
'Every year beautiful Rachel Treherne must rewrite her will--and decide who will inherit her late father's vast wealth...But this year, t ...more
The GR blurb:
'Every year beautiful Rachel Treherne must rewrite her will--and decide who will inherit her late father's vast wealth...But this year, t ...more
Almost there and a very low 4. She's got the pacing and Miss Silver is far more developed but she's not quite nailed her own way of creating characters yet - what lets it down are that there are a few too many of them and to properly develop them all would slow the plot right down. I think the original intention, from the introduction of the characters, was to have a few of them disappear off to town for a lot of the book, but then couln't work out how to do it without making it seem forced.
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Great fun - but some of the characters are really stupid!
Mar 20, 2014
Gary Vassallo
marked it as ebook-library
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Vanessa
marked it as murder-mayhem
