Poison in the Pen (Miss Silver #29)

About this book

A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribe.

It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman’s husband may not have died of natural causes. It is a case of the kind of cruelty that is all too common in the countryside, and the governess-turned-detective listens with only polite interest.

Then the first death comes. Another target of the letter-writing campaign, tortured by the threats to reveal her darkest secrets, drowns herself in the manor-house pond. The Yard sends Abbott to unmask the sinister letter-writer, and he brings Miss Silver along as an undercover agent, masquerading as a tourist as she attempts to stop the next death before it happens.

Miss Silver Mystery #30

Subjects

• england, fiction
• fiction
• fiction, mystery & detective, general
• fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
• large type books
• london (england), fiction
• maud silver (fictitious character)
• miss silver (fictitious person)
• mystery
• mystery fiction
• silver maud (fictitious character)--fiction
• silver, maud (fictitious character), fiction
• women private investigators
• women private investigators--england--fiction