Classic country house murder mystery set in WWII in stunning new packaging.

New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing from tradition, James Paradine makes a speech that changes the course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to confess and return the papers.



A few minutes after twelve James Paradine is dead.



It is left to Miss Silver to disentangle the threads that bind the Paradine family in a strange web of dislike, hatred and fear.

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

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

"Miss Silver is marvellous" - Daily Mail

". . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery" - Alfred Hitchcock Magazine

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