Book meme - day 3

[dimity_blue]

author_by_night, would you like to take up the challenge?

For 10 days, post the cover of a book you like and challenge someone else to join in.

Today's book is Through the Wall by Patricia Wentworth.



Marion Brand is astonished to discover she's inherited a fortune from an unknown uncle. It also comes with a house - two houses really - but the adjoining house has some relatives still living in it, and her uncle's will warned they might be difficult to dislodge.

Marion's the only heir, despite the equal claim of her frail sister, Ina. Ina's wastrel husband is angry she was left out of the will, while the difficult to dislodge relatives are annoyed at the change in their circumstances too.

It's lucky Miss Silver's on hand to investigate when a dead body turns up nearby wearing Marion's coat.

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I like the Miss Silver mysteries and this one is a particular favourite.

Comments

[swordznsorcery]

I read that as Marlon Brando. Then got a bit confused as the sentence progressed.

[dimity_blue]

Ha! I think that would have been a very different book!

[swordznsorcery]

With a lot more guns. And Miss Silver played by Al Pacino.

[dimity_blue]

Hahahaha! Have you read the Miss Silver books? Al Pacino as a dowdy Edwardian governess turned detective would be hilarious!

[swordznsorcery]

No, not my kind of thing. I can definitely get behind Pacino as a dowdy Edwardian governess though!