The Benevent Treasure (Miss Silver Mystery Book 26)
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Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Miss Silver Mysteries Series by cover. Series description Miss Silver is a former governess who now works as a private investigator, accompanied everywhere by her knitting. Related series Inspector Lamb. What I appreciated about Wentworth, though, is that her characters don't pretend not to be aware of Olivia's character when things start to happen, and no one believes her lies.
The end, also, is not quite the same as in other Miss Silver's. Close, but not quite--I don't want to give anything else away. In any case, if you get the audiobook, make sure you don't have a scratched disk that will conk out on you at the most exciting moment, as I did! Feb 26, rainbow rated it liked it Recommends it for: People who like Miss Marple books. Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver books are eminently predictable.
The young lovers will eventually get married and live happily ever after. Miss Silver will solve the mystery in order to facilitate the young couple's engagement.
They always get engaged; there is no such thing as "dating" in this world. Miss Silver will liberally quote Tennyson as she investigates, and Frank Abbott will usually make an appearance.
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If he does, he will refer to Miss Silver as "Maudie," and Miss Silver will pretend that she hates to be called that. There will always be a young woman in peril, and either she or her young male admirer will engage the services of Miss Silver. There is never any discussion of how much she charges or how she collects her fees. Miss Silver is always described as elderly, but she never actually gets any older.
The publication dates of the books range from the s to the s, and time definitely passes for example, books published after WWII refer to the "postwar" world , but Miss Silver's age never changes. What can be learned from this book? That little old ladies are more clever than most people give them credit for.
Dec 27, June Louise rated it really liked it Shelves: Despite me having had trouble wading through the first pages of this Miss Marple-esque murder-mystery, this book gets four stars from me! Get past page and things start happening It's a tale of two elderly sisters, one young woman, one old mansion, buried treasure and a controversial inheritance. It's a tale of jealousy, plotting, concealment and terror. Although extremely well written, there w Despite me having had trouble wading through the first pages of this Miss Marple-esque murder-mystery, this book gets four stars from me!
Although extremely well written, there was, at times, a feeling of things being a little "far fetched" - especially the likelihood that Candida would meet exactly the same man who rescued her from a cliff-face five years previously whilst on a weekend away, when he is called to the mansion to sort out some wall cracks. However, I am glad I persevered with the story - even if the outcome was a little on the predictable side.
This was the first Patricia Wentworth novel I have read - but definitely not the last. It did stand very well as a story in it's own right - you don't need to read the previous books to understand the storyline in this. Although it's a Miss Silver book, the detective is not the lead character, rather she makes a few appearances and doesn't really become a major character until at least half way through the story.
With a chain of scary murders and the surprising visual appeal of Valentine Chalons and his sister, Honoria, a disturbed and deeply pleasing girl, Robicheaux is quickly concerned not just with the Chalons relations yet with the murderous energies of the hot Orleans underworld. It is into this setting that Candida Sayle sets foot, the last in the line of the Benevents. Lonesome Road by Patricia Wentworth. This report is anonymous. The Benevent Treasure first published in The Brading Collection by Patricia Wentworth.
In fact the story is seen through the eyes of the young heroine Ca This is the first Miss Silver book I have read, though I believe Patricia Wentworth wrote many of these. In fact the story is seen through the eyes of the young heroine Candida Sayle. To those reviewers who have mentioned the old fashioned nature of the young couples ie they don't date, they get engaged please remember these books were written in the s and 50s and attitudes to relationships were different then.
I would say if you like Miss Marple, you would very likely enjoy this. I certainly will read more of these stories. She does creepy people very well, does Ms. Somewhere among the dust and cobwebs of the Benevent family home lies hidden the legendary Benevent treasure. But a terrible death has been prophesied for all who dare uncover it. When she first arrives to stay with her two elderly maiden aunts, Candida dismisses such thoughts from her mind.
But soon they become impossible to ignore. Soon sh She does creepy people very well, does Ms. Soon she is quite convinced that somewhere, somehow, among the gloomy vaults of the Benevent's country home, those ancient prophecies will be horribly fulfilled. It takes all Miss Silver's ingenuity to divert the Benevent curse Jul 22, Joy rated it it was ok.
The Benevent Treasure has ratings and 44 reviews. Katie said: An intriguing mystery involving an ancient British country home, a long-missing aide to. Editorial Reviews. Review. “Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Book 26 of 32 in The Miss Silver Mysteries (32 Book Series).
Aged 20, Candida Sayle is alone and friendless with no job skills. Two unknown great-aunts invite her to live with them in their very old house, built onto medieval foundations. This would be a gothic thriller if it weren't for the life in the nearby village.
The Benevent Treasure
The aunts want to wall Candida off from outside people, except that for some unexplained reason they want her to learn to drive, and the lessons take her into the village. The Benevent house is sinister, and I don't take to gothic thrillers, Aged 20, Candida Sayle is alone and friendless with no job skills.
The Benevent house is sinister, and I don't take to gothic thrillers, so I am grateful for the inclusion of Miss Silver and Steven Eversley, who are anxious to come to Candida's rescue. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This was my first Miss Silver mystery and I was disappointed that Miss Silver really did not help solve the mysteries of this novel. I had to reread the ending to grasp "who did who in". Olivia Benevent was the one who tried to hide her niece, Candida Sayle, away to starve to her death.
It was almost a parody of an old-fashioned mystery, done in total stereotype. Closer to those romance novels than a good mystery, I've been packing, and this was one I left out to read, to see if it was worth hanging onto, and trying to find more Patricia Wentworth.
Perhaps I made the mistake of reading a very much better book directly following, and therefore this suffered more my comparison. Dec 14, Susan rated it liked it Recommended to Susan by: A young woman at loose ends receives an unexpected invitation to visit her great-aunts and repair an old family quarrel.
For the most part the subject was lost in gloom and grime, but from a rather horrid glimpse of a sword and a severed head she conjectured that this was perhaps just as well. Jan 06, Regan rated it it was amazing. Admittedly it is one of those books that you can't put down once you start. Not a moment of wasted words and a fantastic mystery.
Actually, there are more like 3 mysteries all entwined with each other in the books. Patricia Wentworth was a fantastic storyteller. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. She was educated privately and at Blackheath High School in London. After the death of her first husband, George F. Dillon, in , she settled in Camberley, Surrey. She married George Oliver Turnbull in and they had one daughter. She wrote a series of 32 classic-style whodunnits featuring Miss Silver, the first of wh Patricia Wentworth--born Dora Amy Elles--was a British crime fiction writer. She wrote a series of 32 classic-style whodunnits featuring Miss Silver, the first of which was published in , and the last in , the year of her death.
Miss Silver, a retired governess-turned private detective, is sometimes compared to Jane Marple, the elderly detective created by Agatha Christie. Wentworth also wrote 34 books outside of that series. Other books in the series. Miss Silver 1 - 10 of 32 books. Books by Patricia Wentworth. See All Goodreads Deals…. In Crusader's pass, a deathbed confession from an previous schoolmate resurrects a narrative of injustice, the homicide of a tender girl, and a time in Robicheaux's lifestyles he has attempted to forget.
Her identify may well or won't were Ida Durbin. It was once again within the blameless days of the Fifties while Robicheaux and his brother, Jimmie, met her on a Galveston seashore.
She was once beautiful and Jimmie fell for her challenging -- now not understanding she used to be a prostitute on notorious submit workplace road, with ties to the mob. Then Ida was once kidnapped and not visible again. Now, a long time later, Robicheaux is looking questions about Ida Durbin, and 2 redneck deputy sheriffs make it transparent that asking questions is a deadly video game. With a chain of scary murders and the surprising visual appeal of Valentine Chalons and his sister, Honoria, a disturbed and deeply pleasing girl, Robicheaux is quickly concerned not just with the Chalons relations yet with the murderous energies of the hot Orleans underworld.
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