'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' -- Daily Telegraph 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot' -- Manchester Evening News 'Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything' -- Paula Gosling '...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery' -- Alfred Hitchcock magazine 'Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying' -- The Scotsman 'Miss Silver is marvellous' -- Daily Mail 'You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver' -- Observer
