Out Of The Past (Miss Silver Series) - Softcover

. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery * Alfred Hitchcock magazine * You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver * Observer * Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying * The Scotsman * Miss Silver is marvellous * Daily Mail * Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot * Manchester Evening News * Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' * Daily Telegraph * Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything * Paula Gosling *

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea. The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona's past, destroys the holiday atmosphere in the old house and replaces it with a mounting tension, culminating in murder. Fortunately, Miss Silver is present to unravel the complex mystery and seek out the murderer amongst them.