?Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller?

?You can?t go wrong with Miss Maud Silver.? (Observer )

?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 storyteller? (Daily Telegraph )

?Miss Silver is marvellous? (Daily Mail )

?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 )

?...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery? (Alfred Hitchcock Magazine )

?I always thought them rather better than ?Miss Marple? and certainly very well written.?

?I like Wentworth very much - she captures the mores of pre-war middle class England perfectly'

?Miss Silver is marvellous?

To the innocent visitor the picturesque village of Greenings would appear to be a haven of tranquility. But every place has its secrets and beneath the calm surface lurk hidden resentments and dangerous passions. When a man is found lying face down in a nearby watersplash, the verdict is death by misadventure. But Miss Silver happens to be in the neighbourhood and she suspects foul play . . .

This book presents a classic cosy crime from a master of the genre now in stunning new retro packaging. To the innocent visitor the picturesque village of Greenings would appear to be a haven of tranquility. But every place has its secrets and beneath the calm surface lurk hidden resentments and dangerous passions. When a man is found lying face down in a nearby watersplash, the verdict is death by misadventure. But Miss Silver happens to be in the neighbourhood and she suspects foul play...

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.