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Patricia Wentworth

This popular British writer of crime fiction was born Dora Amy Elles in India but was educated and lived in England (Wikipedia). The private detective featured in many of her novels was Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess.

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Born 10 November 1878
Died 28 January 1961

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  • Cover of: A marriage under the terror

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  • Cover of: The Gazebo: a Miss Silver mystery

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  • Cover of: The Alington inheritance

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  • Cover of: The Clock Strikes Twelve: (A Miss Silver Mystery)

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  • Cover of: Miss Silver comes to stay

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    Cover of edition poisoninpen00patr First published in 1955 — 31 editions
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  • Cover of: The Watersplash (Miss Silver #21)

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  • Cover of: Anna, where are you?

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  • Cover of: The Benevent treasure

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  • Cover of: The Catherine Wheel (Miss Silver #15)

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  • Cover of: Eternity Ring

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  • Cover of: Case of William Smith

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  • Cover of: The listening eye (a Miss Silver mystery)

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  • Cover of: Lonesome Road

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  • Cover of: Vanishing Point

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Born 10 November 1878
Died 28 January 1961

Subjects

England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, London (england), fiction, Silver, maud (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, Maud Silver (Fictitious character), Women private investigators--England--Fiction, Women private investigators, Maud Silver (Fictitious character)--Fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, crime, Mystery fiction, Silver Maud (Fictitious character)--Fiction, Fiction, general, Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, fiction, Women detectives, English Detective and mystery stories, Large type books, Silver, Maud (Fictitious character), Mystery, Crime, fiction, England, England -- Fiction

Places

England, Cawnpore, France, India, London

People

Miss Maud Silver, Frank Abbott, Inspector Frank Abbott, Chief Inspector Lamb, Frank Abbott., Inspector Jackson, Miss Maude Silver, Miss Silver

Time

Written in 1951, Written in 1953, 1947, Written in 1943, Written in 1944, Written in 1947, Written in 1948, Written in 1949, Written in 1950, Written in 1956, 1930, 1930s, 1942, 1949 (when written), 1950, 1950s, 1958, Begins New Year's Eve, Mid 20th century, Mid Twentieth Century, Revolution, 1789-1799, The Indian Mutiny of 1857, Written in 1928, Written in 1937, Written in 1941

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Alternative names

  • WENTWORTH.
  • Patricia Wentworth Turnbull
  • Patrica Wentworth
  • Wentworth, Patricia pseud. van Dora Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull
  • Patricia Patricia Wentworth
  • Wentworth Wentworth Patricia
  • Patricia WENTWORTH
  • Wentworth Patricia
  • WENTWORTH,Patricia
  • Dora Amy Elles
  • Dora Amy Dillon Turnbull
  • Elles Dora Elles Dora Amy
  • Dora Amy Dillon Elles
  • Dora Amy Turnbull
  • Elles, Dora Amy, Dora Amy
  • P. Wentworth

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