Download or read book The Alington Inheritance written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family fortune may be motive for murder: “Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot” (Manchester Evening News). Jenny has never been one to feel sorry for herself. The illegitimate child of a wealthy man and a statureless woman, she has been an orphan since before she can remember. It is a hard life made bearable only by the kindness of her guardian, an old woman named Miss Garstone, who has always treated Jenny as her own. Struck down by a motorist, “Garsty” dies, whispering to Jenny that her parents were actually married, and she is the rightful heir to the Alington fortune. Miss Garstone was not the only one who knew the secret, and as Jenny grieves, her wealthy cousins work to protect their fortune. When the quiet conflict turns deadly, governess-turned-detective Miss Silver is the only one who can unravel the perplexing family saga.
Download or read book The Alington Inheritance written by Patricia Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alington Inheritance written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming men can be the most dangerous . . . Jenny is 18 when her guardian is killed and her wealthy relations the Forbes invite her to stay. Consoled by the affectionate attentions of their little girls and the charming elder son, she starts to find her feet again. Then she overhears a private conversation and realises she is in terrible danger. Terrified and bewildered, Jenny flees from the village, desperately hoping her enemies will forget all about her. But she's wrong . . .
Download or read book The Alington Inheritance written by Dora Amy Elles, and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned Jenny Hill has always known that she is the illegitimate daughter of Richard Forbes, heir to Alington House and its fortune, who died in the war. The house passed to his brother and his family, and Jenny has grown up in a cottage just opposite the gates, living with her mother's former governess, and intimate with the Forbes family. Then just before her governess dies, she tells Jenny that her father did marry her mother, and she is the legitimate heir to Alington House and its fortune. Mrs. Forbes and her son Mac learn the truth as well, and start scheming how to keep the house and the fortune, through marriage or murder. When Jenny hears of their plans, she flees, but trouble follows her--and she is not necessarily the one who will suffer
Download or read book Through the Wall written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 killer.
Download or read book Anna Where Are You written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing more deadly than a friend betrayed. There is no doubt in Thomasina Elliott's mind that her oldest schoolfriend is a creature of habit. So when, after three years of regular correspondence, Anna's letters suddenly stop, Thomasina becomes concerned. And even more so when it transpires that her friend has disappeared without trace, in extremely odd circumstances. Fortunately, however, the indomitable Miss Silver is on hand to investigate.
Download or read book The Listening Eye written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deaf woman learns some dangerous information—“Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot” (Manchester Evening News). Paulina Paine was buried under her house during the Blitz. She spent twenty-four hours trapped underneath the rubble, where the silence was absolute as the grave, and only after she escaped did she realize that the bomb that spared her life had taken her hearing. With difficulty, she learned to read lips—an invaluable skill that may soon get her killed. She is at an art gallery when, quite by chance, she spies an interesting conversation across the room. Without meaning to, she eavesdrops, and learns of a shocking plan to commit a most fearsome robbery. She doesn’t know what to do until she learns that, after she left, the two men asked after her, and learned about her special talent. Now only the demure detective Maud Silver can halt the robbery and save Paulina’s life.
Download or read book The Hound of Death written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories. A young Englishman visiting Cornwall finds himself delving into the legend of a Belgian nun who is living as a refugee in the village. Possessed of supernatural powers, she is said to have caused her entire convent to explode when it was occupied by invading German soldiers during World War I. Sister Angelique was the only survivor. Could such a tall tale possibly be true?
Download or read book Savage Fortune written by Lyn Boothman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The eighty-three documents presented here, varied in length and character, are not all concerned with Suffolk, but they are all connected with the eventful lives of Sir Thomas (later Viscount) Savage and his wife Elizabeth Savage (later Countress Rivers), who married in 1602 and whose homes included Melford Hall." "Thomas and Elizabeth both inherited considerable estates in Suffolk, Essex and Cheshire. Within a tight circle of aristocratic Catholics, they became prominent servants of the royal family during the reigns of James I and Charles I. After Thomas's death in 1635, Elizabeth remained an intimate of the queen, but her two houses of St. Osyth's and Melford Hall were sacked in 1642, and she remained chronically short of money up to her death in 1651." "The central document is a remarkable inventory of 1635-6, taken after Thomas died, listing the contents of Melford Hall in Suffolk, Rocksavage in Cheshire and a town house on Tower Hill in London."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book The Catherine Wheel written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhen a complicated inheritance case turns deadly, Miss Silver suspects an entire family /divDIVAn advertisement appears in the newspaper, asking for genealogical information from descendants of a certain Jeremiah Taverner, who died in long-ago 1888. It looks like an ordinary notice by a curious scholar, but the question is not nearly as simple as that. The man behind the ad is a Taverner himself: estranged, wealthy, and looking for a suitable relation to name in his will./divDIV /divDIVThe case grows complicated quickly, for there are many who bear the name, several illegitimate relatives aside. Old feuds reemerge now that there is a whiff of money in the air, and the extended family converges to squabble over the cash. It is not long before there is one less Taverner, and Miss Silver, the genteel detective, is called in to find out who put the knife in his back./div
Download or read book The only son offered for sacrifice Isaac or Ishmael written by Abdus Sattar Ghawri and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Tribe written by Buchi Emecheta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The New Tribe, pioneering author Buchi Emecheta tells the tale of a young Nigerian boy adopted by a white family. Life changes overnight for the Arlingtons when an abandoned baby girl, Julia, arrives unexpectedly on their doorstep. The couple take her in and settle into family life. But then, just two years later, their lives change once again when they are told a Nigerian mother is in desperate need of a loving home for her baby boy, Chester. Instantly marked as different from the other children in his school – and even from his own family – Chester's pain and confusion at growing up an outcast ignites in him a desire to find out about his biological family. In this poignant, heartwarming story of Chester's journey through childhood, Buchi Emecheta weaves together a tale of love and acceptance while illuminating the vital importance of self-discovery. 'We are able to speak because [Buchi Emecheta] first spoke.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'Her name deserves to be embedded in our literary history.' Bernardine Evaristo 'A pioneer among female African writers.' Guardian
Download or read book The Allington Inheritance written by Patricia Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latter End written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic mystery novel from one of the mistresses of the genre. Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows which Lois, needless to say, invariably won. More than one person at Latter End found themselves stretched to the limit by Lois and her bullying, and it was only a matter of time before somebody snapped. It was unthinkable of course . . . but if anyone ever murdered Lois Latter, it would be very embarrassing to discover just how many people might have wished her dead.
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