9. Miss Silver Comes to Stay by Patricia Wentworth (Mystery) 339 p.

Big oops—I could have sworn I reviewed this already, since I read it two nights ago (before Snake Agent), but I guess not. I don’t have much to say, though. Much like Agatha Christie’s novels, which are from the same period, the Miss Silver books are fairly consistent in quality; if you like one, you’re pretty much guaranteed to like them all—as long as you don’t read too many in a row!

In Miss Silver Comes to Stay, a visit to an old school friend means Miss Silver is already on the scene when James Lessiter, now a rich man, comes home to the village of Melling after more than twenty years. When he is murdered, suspicion falls on his former fiancée and her foster son, but they are far from the only ones to have had the motive and opportunity to kill him.

As usual, Miss Silver saves the day, without departing from her customary ladylike demeanour or dropping a stitch of her omnipresent knitting.

Pages read: 2,928

Tags: 50 Book Challenge 2008, Miss Silver, Patricia Wentworth