The Dower House Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (599 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01CTOTFUU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 213 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"A haunted house revives a lost love" according to Patto. No tenant will stay in the Dower House. The ghosts are too intrusive. So the owner offers a premium of £200 to a respectable tenant who will stay six months. Mrs. Amabel Grey leaps at the opportunity. She needs the money for her daughter.At forty and widowed, Amabel (Amy) is still young and charming enough to be the heroine of a romance. A. Elizabeth said Excellent, suspenseful novel by author of Miss Silver mysteries. I've read all the Miss Silver mysteries by this author and loved every one. I haven't been as enthusiastic about some of her other works and even stopped reading a few I'd purchased after a couple of chapters, but The Dower House Mystery is fabulous. I couldn't put it down.. Enjoyable Gail F. Whittemore Old-fashioned but very good light mystery, with great settings. Enjoyed it very much.
Amabel Grey hasn’t laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him up—the man she’d fallen passionately in love with—for the fiancé who needed her. . Amabel’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Daphne, has been invited to join her friends—and the boy she adores—on a trip to Egypt. The fact that the overgrown, sadly neglected house is rumored to be haunted doesn’t deter Amabel. Until strange things start happening . . . Now an unexpected circumstance brings the British widow and the world-famous scientist together again. The mewing of a cat that doesn’t exist, the sound of flapping wings, someone crying in the dark. In this atmospheric tale from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, a widow is reunited with her girlhood love in a house haunted by all-too-human ghosts They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Are restless spirits walking the night? Or is there a rational explanation? Plunged into deadly danger, Amabel could lose her second chance with
About the AuthorPatricia Wentworth (1878–1961) was one of the masters of classic English mystery writing. Born in India as Dora Amy Elles, she began writing after the death of her first husband, publishing her first novel in 1910. Along with Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Miss Silver is the definitive embodiment of the English style of cozy mysteries. . In the 1920s, she introduced the character who would make her famous: Miss Maud Silver, the former governess whose stout figure, fondness for Tennyson, and passion for knitting served to disguise a keen intellect
In the 1920s, she introduced the character who would make her famous: Miss Maud Silver, the former governess whose stout figure, fondness for Tennyson, and passion for knitting served to disguise a keen intellect. Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961) was one of the masters of classic English mystery writing. Along