Weekend with Death
by Patricia Wentworth
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This thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries offers fascinating insight into the British mindset during World War II While waiting for a train connection, Sarah Marlowe is drawn into a conversation with an elderly woman who is also traveling alone. For the past five years, Emily Case has lived in Italy as companion to a wealthy aristocrat. She tells Sarah an incredible tale of being entrusted with a package by a stranger dying of a stab wound. Soon afterward, on the train to show more London, Sarah discovers the selfsame package in her own handbag. The next day, she learns Emily has been murdered. The police are asking all potential witnesses to come forward, but Sarah is afraid to lose her position as secretary to the president of the New Psychical Society. Then she makes an alarming discovery. Forced to rely on a seductive stranger she isn't sure she can trust, Sarah must outwit someone who will do anything to retrieve the contents of the mysterious package . . . someone who has killed before and won't hesitate to strike again. Beloved crime writer Patricia Wentworth layers romance, adventure, and gothic intrigue in this exciting thriller. show lessTags
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WEEKEND OF DEATH is a novel of it's time, set during World War II. Note it is NOT a Miss Silver novel.
It is a novel of almost Gothic overtones, set in a run down English country house that has no electricity or running water. Sarah Marlowe goes there for the weekend with her employer, Wilson Cattermole and his eccentic sister Joanna, in pursuit of ghostly emanations.
Sarah finds herself with people who are prepared to murder for the papers she is carrying. In fact she knows that at least one person, the woman who gave them to her in a train station two nights earlier, has already died and she is not sure who in the house she can trust.
Like many Golden Age stories this is a tale full of coincidences which the reader just has to accept as show more "normal". Sarah Marlowe is one of those young women who don't like being told what to do, and constantly gives in to curiosity. show less
It is a novel of almost Gothic overtones, set in a run down English country house that has no electricity or running water. Sarah Marlowe goes there for the weekend with her employer, Wilson Cattermole and his eccentic sister Joanna, in pursuit of ghostly emanations.
Sarah finds herself with people who are prepared to murder for the papers she is carrying. In fact she knows that at least one person, the woman who gave them to her in a train station two nights earlier, has already died and she is not sure who in the house she can trust.
Like many Golden Age stories this is a tale full of coincidences which the reader just has to accept as show more "normal". Sarah Marlowe is one of those young women who don't like being told what to do, and constantly gives in to curiosity. show less
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- Original title
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- People/Characters
- Sarah Marlowe; Emily Case; Wilson Cattermole; Joanna Cattermole; Mrs. Grimsby; John Wickham
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