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•First reissue in over a century of a lost classic by Patricia Wentworth
•From the author of the hugely successful and enduring MISS SILVER crime series, QUEEN ANNE IS DEAD is a historical novel set England and France in 1714
•Praise for Patricia Wentworth: ‘Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; ‘Always entertaining, amusing and peppered liberally with those three prime ingredients of a popular novel – mystery, romance and adventure’ NEW YORK TIMES
Kensington Palace 1714, Queen Anne is dying. Assorted courtiers, flatterers, rogues and favourites are frantically positioning themselves ready to reap bountiful patronages from the new king. The scheming Lady Henrietta Clavering is in her element. But the machinations between Lady Clavering, her estranged son Philip and her much younger beau Jack Murray are about to take a surprising turn. Meanwhile, Philip is dispatched on a fool’s errand to the village of Mercy in the Duchy of Lorraine deep in rural France and into the life of the beautiful Hélène, daughter of a Jacobite exile…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patricia Wentworth was the pen name of Dora Amy Elles, the English novelist who rose to fame through her literary creation, Miss Maud Silver, a retired children’s governess-turned-professional sleuth. The thirty-two-book series launched in 1928 with GREY MASK, was hugely successful. In addition to creating Miss Silver, Wentworth wrote a string of successful historical novels. Her first A MARRIAGE UNDER THE TERROR, set during the French Revolution, appeared in 1910 and won the Melrose prize for the best first novel. She died in 1961.
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA WENTWORTH
‘Enthralling… you will sit up to the small hours reading’
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT
‘The character drawing is excellent… the conversation is a delight’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself – and I always do’
THE DAILY MIRROR
‘Miss Silver at the top of her form’
THE NEW YORKER
‘Score another triumph for the placid ex-governess who sticks to her knitting while she is solving crime problems’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘Miss Silver is marvellous’
THE DAILY MAIL
‘Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot’
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
‘Wentworth’s plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying’
THE SCOTSMAN
‘Miss Maud Silver has by now earned a permanent place amongst the immortals of detective fiction’
BIRMINGHAM MAIL
‘You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver’
THE OBSERVER
Genre: Romance
•From the author of the hugely successful and enduring MISS SILVER crime series, QUEEN ANNE IS DEAD is a historical novel set England and France in 1714
•Praise for Patricia Wentworth: ‘Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; ‘Always entertaining, amusing and peppered liberally with those three prime ingredients of a popular novel – mystery, romance and adventure’ NEW YORK TIMES
Kensington Palace 1714, Queen Anne is dying. Assorted courtiers, flatterers, rogues and favourites are frantically positioning themselves ready to reap bountiful patronages from the new king. The scheming Lady Henrietta Clavering is in her element. But the machinations between Lady Clavering, her estranged son Philip and her much younger beau Jack Murray are about to take a surprising turn. Meanwhile, Philip is dispatched on a fool’s errand to the village of Mercy in the Duchy of Lorraine deep in rural France and into the life of the beautiful Hélène, daughter of a Jacobite exile…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patricia Wentworth was the pen name of Dora Amy Elles, the English novelist who rose to fame through her literary creation, Miss Maud Silver, a retired children’s governess-turned-professional sleuth. The thirty-two-book series launched in 1928 with GREY MASK, was hugely successful. In addition to creating Miss Silver, Wentworth wrote a string of successful historical novels. Her first A MARRIAGE UNDER THE TERROR, set during the French Revolution, appeared in 1910 and won the Melrose prize for the best first novel. She died in 1961.
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA WENTWORTH
‘Enthralling… you will sit up to the small hours reading’
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT
‘The character drawing is excellent… the conversation is a delight’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself – and I always do’
THE DAILY MIRROR
‘Miss Silver at the top of her form’
THE NEW YORKER
‘Score another triumph for the placid ex-governess who sticks to her knitting while she is solving crime problems’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘Miss Silver is marvellous’
THE DAILY MAIL
‘Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot’
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
‘Wentworth’s plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying’
THE SCOTSMAN
‘Miss Maud Silver has by now earned a permanent place amongst the immortals of detective fiction’
BIRMINGHAM MAIL
‘You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver’
THE OBSERVER
Genre: Romance
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