Library's review
This is the sixth Miss Silver mystery I've read, and the best one yet. It seemed to be the closest Wentworth has come in this series to a true mystery story, rather than a romance with some suspense/mystery elements tossed in on the side. There's no shortage either of victims or likely suspects, and if it seems a tiny bit far-fetched that all these people would have washed up in the same building, I can overlook that because the plot and characters are so doggone good.
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Maud Silver, governess-turned-sleuth, investigates a case of blackmail in a once-grand London apartment house. Vandeleur House was great once. The home of a prominent court painter, its ballroom and parlors hosted the brightest of the Victorian era. Now divided into eight flats, it is an apartment building whose glorious façade conceals a nest of diabolical intrigue. There is Maude, a young woman who was crossing the Atlantic when her steamer was struck by a Nazi torpedo. She survived; her husband did not. Then there's Ivy, a sleepwalking maid with a curious past. And last there is Mrs. Underwood, a snobbish woman dreadfully embarrassed that she is being blackmailed by another resident. And all that drama in just one flat. There are many secrets in Vandeleur house, and it will take the full force of gentlewoman detective Maud Silver's intuition to unravel the… (more)