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Bezig met laden... De vloek van de pelgrims (1946)door Patricia Wentworth
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Miss Silver is back, and for a wonder she did not get hired for her current case on a train! No, instead she gets an indirect referral from Detective Sergeant Frank Abbott. It seems Abbott's friend Roger Pilgrim is convinced someone is trying to kill him, perhaps to keep him from selling the family manor, Pilgrim's Rest. Miss Silver gives him some advice which he refuses to take, so who's to blame when he turns up dead? Well, the murderer of course, but our Maudie will have to bring in the big guns in the persons of DS Abbott and his boss, Chief Inspector Lamb, to catch the culprit. I enjoyed this 10th entry in the series. The whodunit was decent. Although I had the killer pegged very early on it didn't seriously hamper my enjoyment of seeing how it all played out, and there were other characters who could plausibly have done the deed. The inevitable romance angle was fairly muted, and included some coy misdirection in terms of guessing which two characters were going to end up in a clinch at the end. I was worried at the outset about the presence of an overly precocious child but thankfully she was shunted offstage fairly quickly, leaving the field clear for the less precocious grownups to do the acting out. After two narrow escapes from death Roger Pilgrim fears that someone is trying to kill him, and possibly killed his father, so he calls in Miss Silver. Its clear that one of the residents of the house doesn't want the house to be sold, but who? A good mystery with lots of twists and turns to the plot. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Miss Silver (10)
HTML:During the war, the British countryside is a refuge from the Blitzâ??but other lethal dangers lurk there . . . "You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver" (The Observer). It is time for Judy to get out of London. Her sister and brother-in-law have just perished in an air raid, leaving her in charge of their four-year-old daughter, and Judy wants no more to do with death. She arranges for work in a piece of the countryside untouched by the war: a charming manor called Pilgrim's Rest. But it may be that she has more to fear than the Blitz. When she tells Frank Abbott of her plans, he warns her that strange things have been happening at Pilgrim's Rest. The family patriarch is recently dead of mysterious circumstances, and his heir has just suffered a series of near-fatal accidents. He cannot sway Judy, for she needs the work. But he does convince the governess-turned-detective Maud Silver to follow Judy to the village, to be on hand in case country living turns dangero Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Roger’s father decided to sell the family estate, Pilgrim’s Rest. It has been in the family pretty much since the beginning. Shortly after the announcement of the upcoming sale, the father died while riding his favourite horse. When Roger came home to take over the family affairs and announced he was following through with the sale, things happened to Roger.
Among the residents of Pilgrim’s Rest are two aunts, the butler and his wife, an older cousin and the nurse hired to care for him, a newly hired maid and her four year old niece. Is the perpetrator among these people? And why is someone trying to harm Roger?
Miss Silver is invited to visit Pilgrim’s Rest to solve the mystery. While her knitting needles click away, she listens and observes to find out who is the instigator. Her time spent as a teacher and knowledge of human nature provide her with insight.
Miss Silver mysteries are similar to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries. Cozy reads in quieter times. ( )