Born Dora Amy Elles, but better known to us all as Patricia Wentworth, this is an author that today is probably best remembered for her Miss Silver novels, although she did write others, this being such a one.
First published in 1928 here we follow David Fordyce. You can argue that this is a mystery as it has at the centre of the plot whether David who secretly married has a wife still, or whether she died when the ship they were on sunk. But to be strictly more open I would really call this more of a melodrama.
As a former love interest of Fordyce so Eleanor is back on the scene, but then something in the paper leads him to wonder whether his wife may still be alive. When Flora, better known as Folly lets something slip so David is determined to find out all about the woman who may or may not be his wife.
This takes in greed, manipulation and deception and is an okay read, although it is quite dated for today’s audience and it has to be admitted that stories like this were on their way out as this came first onto the market. If you are looking for what we really think of as a Golden Age mystery, then this I am afraid isn’t it.
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