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SILENCE IN COURT IBD

PATRICIA WENTWORTH
DEAN STREET PRESS
05 / 2016
9781911095637
Inglés

Sinopsis

&ldquo,How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again.&rdquo,Imperious, warm-hearted Honoria Maquisten plans to revise her will &ndash, but before the papers can be drawn up, she is dead from an overdose of pills. All eyes are on Carey Silence, a penniless orphan who was recently made Honoria&rsquo,s ward. Suspicion becomes evidence, Carey is arrested and her trial is prepared. So begins a classic golden age mystery with many suspects and twists. Who was the &lsquo,rocket&rsquo, referred to? Who was it Honoria really intended to cut out of her will? And most importantly &ndash, who murdered her?This novel, from 1945, tells the story of one of the most dramatic trials in detective fiction &ndash, the trial of Carey Silence. The new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.&ldquo,When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself &ndash, and I always do.&rdquo, Mary Dell, Daily Mirror