Traveller Returns (Miss Silver Series)

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1978
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Anne Jocelyn had been a beautiful, wealthy young woman. She had died three years ago. At least, that was what her husband Philip and the rest of the family had always thought. But then a woman calling herself Anne Jocelyn appeared and managed to convince everyone that she was the real Anne. Everyone, that is, except Miss Silver, whose suspicions are aroused by an apparently senseless murder.

Synopsis

Anne Jocelyn had been a beautiful, wealthy young woman. She had died three years ago. At least, that was what her husband Philip and the rest of the family had always thought. But then a woman calling herself Anne Jocelyn appeared and managed to convince everyone that she was the real Anne. Everyone, that is, except Miss Silver, whose suspicions are aroused by an apparently senseless murder.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 01 Sep 1978
ISBN 10: 0340029323
ISBN 13: 9780340029329
Book Overview: Miss Silver returns in this classic crime mystery.

Media Reviews

A particular favourite * Andrew Taylor *
Miss Silver is marvellous * Daily Mail *
. . . 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 *
Miss Wentworth is a first rate story-teller * Daily Telegraph *
You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver * Observer *
Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying * The Scotsman *
Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything * Paula Gosling *

Author Bio

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 crime fiction.