A classic mystery featuring retired governess and private investigator Miss Silver, set during the Second World War.

It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been working for the government on a secret project for years. Finally he is ready to hand over the formula. But the next morning he is dead. It looks like suicide. Only Miss Silver knows it's murder.

"Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller" - Daily Telegraph

"Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot'" - Manchester Evening News

"You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver." - Observer

"Miss Silver is marvellous" - Daily Mail

"Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything" - Paula Gosling