Latter End

by Patricia Wentworth

Ebook, 2011

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Eleven books into the series and World War II is finally over. And nowhere is it more over than Latter End, a country house inhabited by strong-willed Lois Latter and her second husband, the besotted James, along with a motley crew of James' ersatz female relatives. Lois does not like these women,

not at all, and her schemes to force them out are blatantly obvious to everyone except her clueless husband. That setup leaves no shortage of suspects when the loathsome Lois turns up dead. Chief Inspector Lamb and Inspector Abbott, whom we've met in previous entries in this series, are in charge of the investigation, which of course spins its wheels until Miss Maud Silver arrives to straighten it all out. A more straightforward mystery than earlier entries in the Miss Silver series, and a romantic subplot that knows its place, made this one an enjoyable read.

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth who "has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot," Miss Silver investigates a case of marital murder (Manchester Evening News). Lois has always dreamed of being a Latter. The Latter brothers are both so attractive�??nearly as handsome as their stately manor, Latter End. After she spoils her relationship with one brother, Lois succeeds with the other, winning his heart with her good looks and a sizeable fortune from her first marriage. But even after they've wed, she never quite fits in with the family. Still, she hardly expects them to kill her. When the psychic Memnon warns her of murder by poison, Lois laughs it off and so does everyone else, but then, like clockwork, she's dead. The weapon? Poison, of course. Only the brilliant governess-turned-detective Miss Maud Silver can solve this tantalizing case complicated by the bitterness that infests Latter End.… (more)