Latter End

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Summary: Murder in a Country Manor
Review: This is an excellent mystery featuring a country house full of relatives and dependents. Jim Latterly's life is drastically changed when his beautiful new wife dies suddenly. Miss Silver, of course, assists in investigating whether it was murder or suicide. The plot has a great ending and of course features at least one romance.Patricia Wentworth makes her characters real and interesting.

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Summary: A Must For Miss Silver Lovers
Review: This story features Lois Latter, a minipulative and selfish woman who uses her beauty and intelligence to get her way. She is married to James Latter who wants everything to be just as it always has been, with his two step-sisters, his dead mothers' friend (Minnie Mercer) and his cousin Antony. Lois has other ideas. Her minipulations are causing conflict and when Lois is poisoned, James Latter is suspect number one. Miss Silver becomes convinced he is innocent. So, who poisoned Lois? The answer is yet another brilliant twist Wentworth style. Another hit for Wentworth and another page turner for me.

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Summary: No One can Characterize like Patricia Wentworth!
Review: We already know that Patricia Wentworth has the "murder in the country manor" genre down pat, and this book does not disappoint in that fact either. But I feel that Ms. Wentworth can draw characters very well indeed as well. Her characters are so real that as I read, they bring to mind actual people that I know that "were just like that". Her character of Mrs. Latter in this book is a fine example of this talent. She is exceptionally well-drawn, and appears so realistic. This book has a very limited number of suspects when Mrs. Latter dies from morphia poisoning, and it just doesn't seem that any of them could have possibly done it. Or could they have? Miss Silver is brought in to get to the truth of the matter, and you can bet she does.