The Alington Inheritance (Miss Silver Mystery Book 31)

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I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Miss Silver Mysteries Series by cover. Series description Miss Silver is a former governess who now works as a private investigator, accompanied everywhere by her knitting.

Related series Inspector Lamb. Related publisher series Club del Misterio. Related places England, UK. Farne, Ledshire, England, UK. Related events World War II. How do series work?

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Miss Silver Mysteries Series by cover 1—8 of 36 next show all. Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth. The Case is Closed by Patricia Wentworth. Lonesome Road by Patricia Wentworth. Danger Point by Patricia Wentworth. The Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth. Just before her tragic death following a hit and run accident she tells Jenny that there is a letter from her father to her mother showing that they were actually married and that therefore the local big house should actually belong to Jenny.

The letter seems to have gone missing. Jenny is taken in by Mrs Forbes at the big house to look after her two girls. But Jenny overhears a conversation be Jenny Hill has been brought up by an elderly lady she calls Garsty and who was her mother's governess.

But Jenny overhears a conversation between Mrs Forbes and her eldest son - Mac - with whom Jenny is just a little in love, which shows her that they are aware she should own what they regard as their own house. Jenny feels she cannot stay in the house any more and runs away that night. Fortunately she meets up with a distant cousin who takes her to his aunt, who takes her in while they decide what it to be done. Then a murder is committed nearby and Jenny herself is in danger. Here is an ideal case for Miss Silver to look into and she does so very efficiently but not before the wrong person is accused and it looks as though the real murderer will never be revealed.

I enjoyed both reading and listening to this well written Golden Age mystery though it was actually first published quite a long time after that Golden Age of British crime fiction. Miss Silver is always clever and percipient and her knowledge of human nature and the minutiae of everyday life is second to none. The Miss Silver series can be read in any order even though they are part of a series as the only things which mark out the passage of time are the promotions of Frank Abbot and other detectives of Miss Silver's acquaintance and the marriages of her various relatives.

This is the 31st of the 32 Miss Maud Silver series. It is an enjoyable cozy mystery.

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It doesn't seem to be as loaded with characters to keep straight as in many of others in the series, nor is the mystery particularly puzzling, but the story comes to a satisfactory resolution as I have come to expect from the Patricia Wentworth mysteries. Although this can be read as a stand-alone, the enjoyment of Miss Silver is enhanced by following her cases through the whole series. Apr 28, Mo rated it liked it Shelves: All the same, I am in a full-blown panic… there is only one more book in this series.

Jan 05, Learnin Curve rated it it was ok. Sagged heavily in the middle. The murderer in this case appears normally intelligent, but sets himself up in a fantastically stupid way thanks, I guess, to his overweening arrogance. He may as well have flipped a coin with regards to what happened with his note. Sep 08, Bookworm rated it it was ok Shelves: Jenny Hill has always been content as Jenny Hill; until she finds out that she is actually the natural daughter of her parents and is entitled to be Jenny Forbes and claim a property.

But Mac Forbes, as the current owner of that property who would be supplanted be her, will not let that happen. I follow Meg Cabot's blog and she recommended the Miss Silver books by Patricia Wentworth for fans of Agatha Christie; well if you skim my archives, you'll see that I am a big fan and I'm currently involved in my own personal challenge to read all of her books so I was interested to give these a try. I went to my library's catalogue and this was the only book they had so I figured I'd give it a try.

This was not the best introduction to Ms.

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Wentworth's stories, I hope. First the murder does not happen until nearly halfway through the book and the murderer and motive are actually explained at the time of the murder. The only suspense is if the characters will figure it out, which I never doubted they would.

So it fails as a mystery. Then the writing, while enjoyable, is very repetitive. I read every piece of information at least twice although sometimes as many as five times. And it's not as if the words are varied; it is nearly word for word repeated. And it is not as if it happened in the beginning and then was explained at the end again; instead it happens and then is repeated something like two pages later. I ended up having to skim.

The Alington Inheritance (Miss Silver #31)

I hope this is not indicative of Wentworth's other works because I would like to give some of the earlier Miss Silver books a try. Another problem for me is that it takes place in and a huge part of the plot is whether someone is illegitimate and thus not an heir to a piece of property and the goings on of stereotypical small English villages.

The first just seems so stupid to me in a time where it seems like so many people are having children out of wedlock and the latter is gossipy women with no ambitions in life other than to gossip about each other.

The detective Miss Silver seems a bit Marpleish, which is good as I adore Miss Marple but she doesn't appear until almost halfway through the book. Jenny, the main character, is super lame. And most of the other characters don't have much personality. The most irksome part is the way everybody blames the victim of the murder: Repetitive and without suspense.

Jan 26, John Poen rated it really liked it Shelves: I picked this up on sale and I'm really glad I did. It's one of those quaint little books that just kind of fill your heart with knowing that everything works out in the end. A solid 4 star read. I recommend this book to those who like simple kind-hearted stories that have some intrigue and very little violence. BTW, I was unaware that this book is part of a series, when I read it.

So, it is fine, standing well, on it's own. Aug 23, Amanda rated it really liked it. A departure from the author's nirm, in that the reader knows all along who the criminal is and the tension comes from watching the other characters figure out what happened. I particularly enjoyed the characterizations in this one, as well as Wentworth's creatively vivid descriptions.

Mar 05, Silvio rated it it was amazing.

I liked it, but I remember thinking that Miss Silver did not have much of a presence. Now, after sporadically reading several more in the series, I suddenly came upon 31, and was impressed by how Miss Silver has developed as a character. Now she is not just that inscrutable elderly lady at a desk knitting, listening carefully to her clients, but not interacting much in the plot or in the lives of the characters.

Now she is the person who impresses others with her kindness and compassion as well as her steely ability to look right through a person to discern the truth. It learned somewhere between Dickensian human circumstance and Jane Austen-like impending peril for young ladies. I think my favorite moment was when year-old urchin-about-the-village, "Dicky" discovers how easy and unstressful it is to just tell the truth.

The Alington Inheritance

To his devious young mind, it is almost as if he has discovered a new dodge to fool people with. She was a British crime writer, best known for her Miss Silver Mysteries, though she also wrote romantic novels. This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free.

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