Patricia Wentworth
His first wife died suddenlyâ€”and his wealthy new bride may be about to meet a similar fate . . ., ,Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back to London when, with a violent shudder of the train, a young woman is thrust into her compartment. Sheâ€™s beautiful, well dressed, newly married, and wealthyâ€”a lethal combination.,In a state of shock, Lisle Jerningham explains that she fled her home in a hurry after overhearing a sinister conversation. Her new husbandâ€™s first wife died in an apparent accident, and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now, heâ€™s broke againâ€”and attempting to engineer a second convenient mishap. Miss Silver is unsure whether the drama is real or a figment of Lisleâ€™s imaginationâ€”but if this frightened young lady is a target for murder, the killer will have to deal with the governess-turned-sleuth first., Starring a mature sleuth who â€œhas her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirotâ€, ,In the Balance, is a classic British mystery (,Manchester Evening News,).
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In the Balance