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Patricia Wentworth The Girl in the Cellar Miss Silver 1961 The tale is mine, the punctuation yours.

Patricia Wentworth The Girl in the Cellar Miss Silver 1961 The tale is mine, the punctuation yours. Oh, happy envied fate that this affords, Firmly to dam with strong and silent stops The flowing torrent of a woman’s words! CHAPTER 1 She looked into the dead unbroken dark and had neither memory nor thought. She was not conscious of where she was, or of how she had come there. She was not conscious of an.

A woman suffers amnesia as she regains consciousness to find herself standing on cellar steps with a dead girl down below. As she flees she runs into Miss Silver, who takes on this most mysterious case. The Girl in the Cellar

A woman suffers amnesia as she regains consciousness to find herself standing on cellar steps with a dead girl down below. The Girl in the Cellar. The tale is mine, the punctuation yours.

Patricia Wentworth The Girl in the Cellar Miss Silver 1961 The tale is mine, the punctuation yours

Patricia Wentworth The Girl in the Cellar Miss Silver 1961 The tale is mine, the punctuation yours. She was not conscious of anything except the darkness. She did not know if time had pass.

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Something like a half-struck match went off in the darkness of Anne’s mind. There wasn’t time for her to see anything by the light of it, but there was something there to be seen, she was sure about that. It was gone in a flash, but it had been there. She said, ‘It might help me to remember, if you don’t mind. Lilian had gone over to her writing-table. She opened a drawer and began to fuss over the papers that were in it. ‘Miss Porso. ear, dear, I must remember to write.

Born in Mussoorie, India, in 1878, Patricia Wentworth was the daughter of an English general

Born in Mussoorie, India, in 1878, Patricia Wentworth was the daughter of an English general. Educated in England, she returned to India, where she began to write and was first published. She married, but in 1906 was left a widow with four children, and returned again to England where she resumed her writing, this time to earn a living for herself and her family. She married again in 1920 and lived in Surrey until her death in 1961. Miss Wentworth’s early works were mainly historical fiction, and her first mystery, published in 1923, was The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith

Patricia Wentworth's final book, published the year she died, aged 82. This may explain the multiple repetitions.

Patricia Wentworth's final book, published the year she died, aged 82. At one point, near the end, A pretty poor thriller, not a mystery really as most of the book follows Anne who has lost her memory, apparently due to her finding a body in a dark cellar in an empty house. She is threatened throughout the book by master criminals who are able to trace her wherever she flees.

I decided to read one of the shorter books to get back into the swing of the challenge and chose The Girl in the Cellar . This is the last of the Miss Silver Mysteries, published in the year Patricia Wentworth died. The first in the series was published in 1928.

I decided to read one of the shorter books to get back into the swing of the challenge and chose The Girl in the Cellar, a Miss Silver Mystery first published in 1961, by Patrici. Miss Maud Silver is a retired governess who became a private investigator. I’ve only previously read one of the Miss Silver books, The Brading Collection, which is a much more convincing book.

The Girl in the Cellar. Author: Patricia Wentworth. A woman suffers amnesia as she regains consciousness to find herself standing on cellar steps with a dead girl down below.

In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver’s shell

In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver’s shell. The amnesiac flees and finally has a stroke of luck: She meets Maud Silver. A dowdy governess turned daring detective, Miss Silver sees immediately that something is wrong. She comforts the confused young woman, and coaxes out of her what little story she can tell. The memory of the body sets Miss Silver on a fantastic adventure-the last written by Patricia Wentworth, and one of the most thrilling of them all. Thriller & Crime Cosy Mysteries Women Sleuths