by Patricia Wentworth
Well, well. I had low expectations for this book and only really looked forward to it because it was planned buddy read with Lillelara. So, imagine my surprise when I actually enjoyed this story despite its entirely bonkers plot and even despite its utterly, utterly stupid main character. Margot re...
Well, the ending was sort of anticlimatic. But since the plot of this book was completely bonkers in the first place and the whole romance plot was a dud from beginning to end, I don´t mind the ending too much. And to tell the truth, I found this book to be an entertaining read, which would put this...
Rating: 3* of five In the 90 years since this was written, I think its central premise...that people will do anything to avoid embarrassment...has proved an evergreen turned inside out. Reality TV takes everyone's dirtiest and smelliest laundry public. The characters in this book would have expired ...
I've always been familiar with the name Patricia Wentworth as one of those Golden Age authors omnipresent on my mom's bookshelves, but I had no idea at all about the books themselves. That gave me the chance to come at this one completely fresh, with no pre-conceived notions of what I'd be getting ...
This book marks Miss Silver's entrance into the annals of Golden Age crime fiction, and it's certainly an enjoyable one. I'd read other Miss Silver mysteries before: This doesn't strike me as a series one absolutely has to read strictly in order; even though it is worthwhile noting that Wentworth ...
I was so busy creating bingo cards that I haven't really had a chance to put my thoughts in order on this buddy read. I finished this one last night, blasting through the last 25% or so of the mystery. The "criminal mastermind" trope, honestly, isn't one of my favorites, but even knowing that, I ...
bookshelves: published-1928, mystery-thriller, summer-2010, knit-fic, filthy-lucre, families, fraudio Read from July 20 to 21, 2010 workaday mp3Unabridged and read by Diana Bishop. 7 hours 36 mins duration. 8 CD's.[Miss Silver, Book #1, 1928:]Blurb - Furious at being jilted at the altar by Margar...
This book was great! I was on pins and needles as I got to the end. Very exciting finish.Favorite line: I expect he does now. Egbert isn't the sort of name most fellows would be seen dead in a ditch with. --p. 156
workaday mp3Unabridged and read by Diana Bishop. 7 hours 36 mins duration. 8 CD's.[Miss Silver, Book #1, 1928:]Blurb - Furious at being jilted at the altar by Margaret Langton, Charles Moray left England behind him. Four years later he returns only to discover that a criminal gang has been using his...
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