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Bezig met laden... Het stille water (1956)door Patricia Wentworth
Books Read in 2021 (1,170) Bezig met laden...
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. Not one of the best in the Miss Silver series but still a quick and fun read. ( ) A retired stage actress visits Miss Silver in disguise (seen right through by our sharp-eyed governess-cum-detective, of course). Adriana Ford thinks someone in her ragtag extended family may be trying to kill her for her money — there's been a fall on the stairs, a possibly poisoned soup, and a suspicious medicine tablet. After spilling all this to Miss Silver, the actress decides she's being overly dramatic and declines Miss Silver's help. But after the first body shows up, she puts in a call to our Maudie to come sort things out. I'd gotten used to Miss Silver not showing up until perhaps the middle of a book or even later, so it was a surprise to see her right there in the first sentence this time. That fact, combined with a rather lengthy bit of exposition in the first chapter that brings readers up to speed on Miss Silver's backstory, makes me think this book was seen as a chance to hook some new readers into the Tribe of Maudie. If you're one of those people who don't feel the need to start a series at the beginning, this could be a good one to begin with. But surely you wouldn't do that, would you? Anyway, the story is a good one. There's a satisfying surfeit of suspects and some pleasant characters to root for, though this book further confirms my theory that Wentworth had much more fun writing terrible people than she did nice ones. Her villains are always just so delightfully villainous! I'm feeling a little melancholy as we approach the end of the series (this is Book 25 of 32), but I'm pleased that each outing remains remarkably strong even this far along in the series. After a disappointing first in the series, I thought to try this later one, and it's much, much better. A complicated plot, an old English house in the semi-grand manner, a tiny village, a couple of nifty murders, lots of gossip, convenient witnesses all unravelled by Miss Silver in a most satisfying way, and all explained, so that she doesn't seem to have done magic. This is one of a long series of country house mysteries featuring the governess-turned-private detective Maud Silver. They are formulaic but enjoyably so. The main flaw I find is the introduction of Miss Silver in every book, in almost identical wording each time. Perhaps I should just think of those sections as the opening credits. The invented Home County of Ledshire does seem to have a remarkably high murder rate; this book set in the household of a wealthy and faintly scandalous former actress is no exception. http://rmc28.dreamwidth.org/466356.html geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: A star of the London stage urgently needs Miss Silver's help: From "a first-rate storyteller" (The Daily Telegraph). Mrs. Smith is not the first woman who has come to Maud Silver, the genteel private detective, claiming that someone is trying to kill her. She tells a story of attempted poisoning, a shove down a flight of stairs, and a house full of relatives who might want to push her out of the way. Miss Silver is intrigued, not least because this is not Mrs. Smith. Despite her attempt at a disguise, the detective recognizes the woman as Adriana Ford, the grand dame of the London stage. Mrs. Smith was a ruse; the attempts on her life are quite real. There is soon a body at Adriana's country estate, but it is not the actress who has been killed. Fully interested, Miss Silver travels to the house, where she learns that the actress is not the only one who tells lies. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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