Pilgrim’s Rest
A bloody curse fells four…
Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend, Detective Sergeant Abbott tells him that, having been left the custody of her motherless little niece, she is taking a domestic job in the country with a family named Pilgrim. Frank is appalled, mysterious deaths have been taking place there. A curse is on the house of Pilgrim’s Rest and by the time Miss Silver investigates she has four murders to solve.
Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend, Detective Sergeant Abbott tells him that, having been left the custody of her motherless little niece, she is taking a domestic job in the country with a family named Pilgrim. Frank is appalled, mysterious deaths have been taking place there. A curse is on the house of Pilgrim’s Rest and by the time Miss Silver investigates she has four murders to solve.
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Reviews
A particular favourite
Miss Silver is marvellous
. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery
Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot
Miss Wentworth is a first rate story-teller
You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver
Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying
Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything
