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Book SynopsisJudy Elliot, meeting an old friend, Detective Sergeant Abbott tells him that, having been left the custody of her motherless little niece, she is taking a domestic job in the country with a family named Pilgrim. Frank is appalled, mysterious deaths have been taking place there. A curse is on the house of Pilgrim''s Rest and by the time Miss Silver investigates she has four murders to solve.
Trade ReviewA particular favourite * Andrew Taylor *
Miss Silver is marvellous *
Daily Mail *
. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery *
Alfred Hitchcock magazine *
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 story-teller *
Daily Telegraph *
You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver *
Observer *
Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying *
The Scotsman *
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 *