The Benevent Treasure: Benevent Treasure, The - Softcover

Wentworth, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061044067 ISBN 13: 9780061044069

Publisher: HarperTorch, 1996

Synopsis

Taken in by her two great-aunts, Candida Sayle fears she may become the next victim of the Benevent Treasure, which is said to bring death to anyone who touches it, while Miss Silver investigates the death of a former Benevent employee. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Wentworth was born in Uttarakhand, India but as a young girl moved to London to study at Blackheath High School for Girls. After writing several romances she turned her hand to crime fiction. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in 1961, and is recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime fiction.

Review:

Praise for Patricia Wentworth: Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller Daily Telegraph Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot Manchester Evening News You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver. Observer Miss Silver is marvellous Daily Mail 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 ...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery Alfred Hitchcock Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0061044067
• ISBN 13: 9780061044069
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288