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Latter End (A Miss Silver Mystery) | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 209051
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0340767898
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780340767894
ASIN: 0340767898
Publication Date: January 1, 1949
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NOT QUITE CHRISTIE BUT DEFINITELY WORTH READING September 3, 2008
I have enjoyed most of the Wentworth detective novels and am very pleased to see them begin to be reprinted. This in my opinion is one of the best.Miss Silver is called in to investigate the demise of the very unpleasant Lois Latter. The suspects are centred around the family.
Highly recommened except the annoying Miss Silver "cough" which is mentioned frequently in all the novels!
Drinking tea and watching at doors. March 12, 2008
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Patricia Wentworth (1878-1961) was a very prolific and very competent detective fiction practitioner. A slightly older contemporary of Agatha Christie, she brought out an elderly spinster detective sleuth, Maud Silver, a short time before the latter created Jane Marple. Both writers utilized a common formula: create a character whom everybody hates, have that character murdered in some ingenious way, then follow the investigations to the surpise ending. Dialogue forms most of the content (in order to mask the killer's identity) and most of the clumsy investigative spade work is done by unimaginative members of the police force.
"Latter End", published in 1947, is a typical example. Indeed, it uses the formula in its most basic form, for all the suspects are members of the one household. Miss Silver gets herself installed in the house and thereafter drinks tea, coughs discretely, interviews everyone, knits socks, and watches from her bedroom door at midnight.
These Miss Silver mysteries are immensely readable. You might complain that the final solution and the evidence finally discovered are barely credible, but you must admit you've had many hours of entertainment getting there.
When you've run out of Miss Marple novels... November 24, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
'Latter End' is a really great golden era murder mystery, and very similar to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels.
The plot is good, the psychology of the characters in explored and there is a wonderfully evil female victim!
This would definitely be well suited to an adaptation for cosy Sunday night TV.
Take it for what it is and enjoy!
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