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- Hodder Paperbacks
- Hodder & Stoughton
Miss Silver Series, Fiction, Crime & mystery
A classic country house murder from one of the Queens of Crime in stunning new retro packaging.
When she found the body of her beloved Uncle Jonathan, Georgina instinctively stooped to pick up the revolver, thus becoming the prime suspect. Georgina stood to inherit a large fortune when her uncle died. But her uncle had a second secret will and the beneficiary is the wide-eyed ing nue Mirrie Fields.
But there was also the puzzle of the missing fingerprint. It was the showpiece of Uncle Jonathan's collection. He had acquired it from a self-confessed murderer, who was still at large. When the old man was shot, the print had been torn from its album. Was the missing fingerprint the clue to the murderer's identity Maud Silver is determined to find out.
Praise for The Fingerprint
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You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver. - The Observer
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Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot - Manchester Evening News
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Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller - Daily Telegraph
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Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying - Scotsman
Patricia Wentworth
Patricia Wentworth was born in Uttarakhand, India but as a young girl moved to London to study at Blackheath High School for Girls.
After writing several romances she turned her hand to crime fiction. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in 1961, and is recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime fiction.
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