Publication

1947 - Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

61,750 words, Guess

Page Count

247 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPZ3.W4885 Lat

Description

To her husband of two years, Mrs Latter is beautiful, charming, and generous. Others know her to be cold, manipulative, and used to getting her own way. When she dies under suspicious circumstances, her grief stricken husband makes a desperate call to Miss Silver. ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Miss Silver investigates an unhappy family whose brightest beauty has just been poisoned. Lois has always dreamed of being a Latter. The Latter brothers are both so attractive—nearly as handsome as their stately manor, Latter End. After she spoils her relationship with one brother, she succeeds with the other, winning his heart with her good looks and the sizeable fortune she had won in her first marriage. But even after they’ve wed, she never quite fits in with the family. Still, she hardly expects them to kill her. But that’s just what the psychic Memnon warns her of: poison. She laughs it off and so does everyone else, but then, like clockwork, she is dead. The police call it murder. The weapon? Poison, of course. It is a tantalizing case, complicated by the bitterness that infests Latter End, and only the brilliant Maud Silver, once a governess, now a detective, is up to the challenge.

Subjects

Places

People

Frank AbbottMiss Maud SilverChief Inspector Lamb

Times

Series Statement

  • A Miss Silver mystery

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