Poison in the Pen (Miss Silver #29)

By Patricia Wentworth

Subjects: England, fiction, Women private investigators, Large type books, Silver Maud (Fictitious character)--Fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Women private investigators--England--Fiction, Silver, maud (fictitious character), fiction, Maud Silver (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Description: A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribe. It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman’s husband may not have died of natural causes. It is a case of the kind of cruelty that is all too common in the countryside, and the governess-turned-detective listens with only polite interest. Then the first death comes. Another target of the letter-writing campaign, tortured by the threats to reveal her darkest secrets, drowns herself in the manor-house pond. The Yard sends Abbott to unmask the sinister letter-writer, and he brings Miss Silver along as an undercover agent, masquerading as a tourist as she attempts to stop the next death before it happens. Miss Silver Mystery #30