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In the Balance (The Miss Silver Mysteries)
In the Balance - The Miss Silver Mysteries Author:Patricia Wentworth His first wife died suddenly?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. She?s beautiful, well dressed, newly married, and wealthy?a lethal combination. — In a stat... more »e of shock, Lisle Jerningham explains that she fled her home in a hurry after overhearing a sinister conversation. Her new husband?s first wife died in an apparent accident, and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now, he?s broke again?and attempting to engineer a second convenient mishap. Miss Silver is unsure whether the drama is real or a figment of Lisle?s imagination?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 ?has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot?, In the Balance is a classic British mystery (Manchester Evening News).« less