Through the Wall (A Miss Silver Mystery)

by Patricia Wentworth

Paperback, 1992

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

Series

Miss Silver (18)

Genres

Mystery

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

Perennial (1992), 284 pages

Description

Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver takes on a murder case involving a surprise inheritance and a feuding family. Martin Brand always had a dark sense of humor. Surrounded by relatives he despised, he looked forward to the day when, dead and buried, he would no longer have to concern himself with them. As a last joke, he willed his entire fortune to a poor relation, and went to his grave a smiling man. After years of toil caring for her layabout sister, Marion Brand is shocked to learn her unknown uncle has left her his estate. Now, she can finally be happy. But claiming the riches isn't so simple. Before long someone is dead�??and it will be up to Miss Maud Silver to find the kill

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Twenty-something Marian Brand is as surprised as anyone when she learns that she has inherited a house by the sea from an estranged uncle. The house is occupied by other relatives who had been passed over by the uncle. Rather than turn them out of their home, Marian returns it to its original

semi-detached state. The current residents will live in one side, and Marian and her sister and brother-in-law will live in the other. No sooner has Marian moved in than someone from the other side is murdered. But who was the intended victim? The deceased, or Marian? It’s a good thing that Miss Silver is staying with relatives in the village. It will take her ingenuity to get to the bottom of things before the murderer strikes again.

This classic mystery has elements of both a country house mystery and a locked room mystery. The locked doors between the two sides of the house seem to limit the murder suspects to those on one side of the house. I was disappointed that readers know exactly how and when the door between the houses was unlocked. This seems to miss the point of a locked room plot.

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