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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cloak-and-dagger intrigue featuring an eccentric agent for Britain's Foreign Office from the author of the timelessly charming Miss Silver mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod). Named after three naval admirals, the enigmatic gentleman spy Benbow Collingwood Horatio Smith detests the sea and loves to indulge his beloved parrot, Ananias, all while protecting the fate of the Western world. Fool Errant : Smith investigates the case of a young man whose new job...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first three novels in the classic Miss Silver Mysteries introduce Patricia Wentworth's beloved British governess-turned-sleuth. In The Grey Mask , Miss Maud Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. Strangely, he finds his family estate unlocked and sees a light in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The British governess-turned-sleuth solves three of her most intriguing cases, in this "timelessly charming" series (Charlotte MacLeod). Retired governess and teacher Maud Silver has found a new calling: private detection. With her knitting needles and fondness for Tennyson, she may seem an unlikely sleuth, but Scotland Yard would be lost without her. "Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three intriguing World War II-era whodunits featuring the Scotland Yard detectives from the "timelessly charming" Miss Silver Mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod). Inspector Ernest Lamb and Det. Frank Abbott of Scotland Yard, who also made regular appearances in Patricia Wentworth's beloved Miss Silver mystery series, confront a range of villains -- from greedy landlords to ruthless blackmailers to diabolical Nazi spies. The Blind Side : Lucy Craddock has...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Four mysteries featuring governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver, who "has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot" ( Manchester Evening News ). "Marvelous" retired governess and teacher Maud Silver may seem like a kindly old soul. But with her keen mind and spritely demeanor, she's Scotland Yard's secret weapon against crime ( Manchester Evening News ). Through the Wall : After years of toil caring for her layabout...
7) Red Shadow
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A woman will do anything to save the man she loves-even marry another-in this compulsively readable tale of political intrigue set in England and Soviet Russia Ten days ago, Jim Mackenzie was arrested and sentenced to death, accused of engaging in counter-revolutionary activities. The Scottish political prisoner expects to die at the end of a Bolshevist bullet today. Instead, he's given an unexpected reprieve. His life is now in the hands of his fiancée,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Who killed Ross Craddock? Inspector Ernest Lamb will sift through multiple clues and suspects to find out in this golden age mystery from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries Lucy Craddock has lived at No. 7 Craddock House for years. But now she's about to be turned out of her home-by her own nephew. She was at his christening, for mercy's sake! Greed is what drives Ross Craddock, who inherited the once-magnificent family home built...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incriminating package in this gripping international thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Double agent Cornelius Roos is about to become dispensable to the Germans-until he reveals the existence of a recording that will guarantee the death of a high-ranking Nazi official if it finds its way into the hands of Hermann Goering. So Roos strikes a bargain: If he walks out of Gestapo headquarters...
10) Run!
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the English countryside, a man is caught up in an intricate web of greed and murder, in this mystery from the creator of Miss Silver The nightmare begins when James Elliot gets lost on a dark, foggy country road. When he stops at a house to ask for directions, a woman rushes out and tells him to run. Seconds later, shots are fired. After they escape the unknown shooter, Aspidistra Aspinall says she's an orphan and has no idea who's after her. She...
11) Anne Belinda
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A woman vanishes without a trace-and her relations are forbidden to speak her name In 1917, after he's released from the hospital, John Waveney is headed back to the trenches in France when he decides to visit the land of his ancestors dating back to the Crusades. There, he meets a young girl who, upon learning he's all alone in the world, tells him she'd be sorry if anything happened to him at the front. Nine years later, John returns to Waveney...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three cozy mysteries in the "timelessly charming" historical series featuring a retired English governess who finds a second calling as a detective (Charlotte MacLeod). Meet Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess and "little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything" (Paula Gosling, author of the Jack Stryker mystery series). Dark Threat : Judy Elliot leaves war-torn London for a job as a maid in the peaceful countryside. But...
13) Grey Mask
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The first of the classic mysteries featuring governess-turned-detective Miss Silver, who investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned...
15) The Annam Jewel
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One man will stop at nothing to obtain a priceless jewel that has eluded men with dreams of riches and glory for centuries James Waring stares into the darkness of a cavern at a remote shrine in Annam. He's given his pursuers the slip and is about to behold a gem that few men have ever seen. It is a sacred stone-the only one of its kind in the world. The magnificent blue, green, red, and gold jewel is nearly within his grasp. But as his hand finally...
16) Touch and Go
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This mystery ratchets up the suspense as a governess tries to save her teenage charge from a deadly fate "No one can take a mother's place." But Sarah Trent is determined to try. She has just been engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, whose mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident. Lucilla's father died in the war, and his younger brother, Maurice, has been missing since 1918. Uncle Maurice's disappearance...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chloe Dane inherits a fabled ancestral estate-and plunges into deadly danger-in this novel of romance and suspense from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries The lowly assistant to a London dressmaker, Chloe Dane yearns for a new life. She has bittersweet memories of being a carefree child playing hide-and-seek at Danesborough, her family's magnificent country estate. Decades later, the ancestral mansion has been restored to its former...
18) Dead or Alive
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The widow of a missing British spy is thrust into mortal danger in this suspenseful tale by the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries A year after a body presumed to be that of her missing husband turns up, someone breaks into Meg O'Hara's flat and leaves her a shocking message. Is it a horrible trick? Or is Robin O'Hara still alive? The British intelligence agent vanished the same day Meg asked for a divorce. With the appearance of more cryptic...
19) Kingdom Lost
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A woman shipwrecked on a desert island, and believed dead for two decades, returns to civilization-as heiress to an enormous fortune Austin Muir has just landed on a seemingly uninhabited South Seas island when he meets a remarkable young woman. Valentine claims to have lived there for twenty years. She has no memory of the shipwreck of the Avronia because she was just a baby at the time. All she knows is that she was rescued and raised by Edward...
20) Hole and Corner
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The death of an American multimillionaire has a profound-and dangerous-effect on a young Englishwoman in this novel of romantic suspense William Ambrose Merewether altered his will just before his death, leaving his millions to descendants of his cousin Jane Lorimer, who may or may not still be alive. But the legacy hinges on one nonnegotiable condition. Across the channel, Shirley Dale struggles to make ends meet working for Mrs. Huddleston,...
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