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A gardener's death sends a country house into a frenzy, and Miss Silver swoops in to set things right.
Edward Random returns to Deeping a forgotten man. Although raised in the village's manor house, he is no longer wealthy - the result of a quarrel with an uncle, which left him out of the old man's will. For years Edward's name has not been spoken in the town, save for wild rumors that he had gone to prison for dueling, decamped to the Orient, or simply died of mysterious circumstances. In fact he is in good health, ready to start life where he left off, money or no money.
But the old family feud stands in his way, and the situation at the manor house grows vicious in the wake of the undergardener William Jackson's death. Did he drown by accident, or was he murdered? Only Maud Silver, the demure but brilliant detective, can say for sure.
- Sales Rank: #44395 in Audible
- Published on: 2016-01-12
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 493 minutes
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Cozy, but not compelling
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The Miss Silver cozy mysteries were written between 1928 and 1961. This is the 27th, written in 1955 when the author was about 77. All of the books have similar frameworks and characters and the pleasure comes from seeing how the same skeleton is fleshed out with a different body. There is the country house, filled with people; at least one couple in love; more than one person with a grudge; and assorted red herrings. Miss Silver, a retired governess with an uncanny knack for drawing people out and seeing through what they say, is on hand to unravel the mystery. The previous book, "The Benevent Treasure", was one of the best, with an unusual Gothic slant. This one, alas, falls short. It feels like the written version of sleepwalking...you know the basics and fill in the words almost by rote. There are many other books in the series that are excellent, very good, or enjoyable, and some that are sadly mediocre. "The Listening Eye" falls into that (mercifully small) category. There are characters who are so annoying you wish someone would knock them off just so you wouldn't have to encounter them again, like Wilfred, an avant-garde painter. There are others who are a bit too goody-goody for my taste, like Sally, the secretary who doesn't give Wilfred the trimming he deserves. There are unbelievable coincidences, such as a connection between a tenant of a deaf woman (who has the "listening eye" because she lip-reads) and the victim of a crime whose details are lip-read. Is it a bad book? No, it's okay. It's just not the best of the series and doesn't grip the reader the way others do.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Jewel theft and murder at a country house party
By Michele L. Worley
Paulina Paine visited the art gallery only because David Moray, the painter who rents her attic as his apartment and studio, sent her portrait there, titled _The Listener_. She hasn't heard anything since a bomb brought her office down around her in 1942, but she never quite lost the look of listening for what she could never hear again. While resting her feet, she idly starts lip-reading the conversation of a pair of men across the gallery who would otherwise be safe from eavesdroppers - and gets a nasty shock upon learning that they're planning a hold-up, and don't care who's killed in the process of taking something away from a secretary on his way back from a bank. She gets an even worse shock later, upon learning that they noticed her, and one of them saw her portrait, and learned about her name and lip-reading from the gallery attendant.
At that point, she has the good sense to use her connection with the Morays to make an appointment with Maud Silver, governess-turned-PI. Pauline tells her the whole story -and she has an excellent memory for words, although no talent for describing faces. Unfortunately, when she like so many others gets cold feet, she doesn't immediately take Maud's advice and go to the police, feeling that they'll treat her lip-reading as a fantasy. [Oddly enough, Pauline turns out to have been right - for reasons I don't pretend to fathom, Maud's friends among the police really *are* reluctant to believe anybody could have lip-read such a conversation.] The point soon becomes moot, since Pauline is killed by a hit-and-run driver before she could repeat her story to the police. Somebody miscalculated badly there, though; Maud's excellent memory and stern conscience ensure that the matter won't be dropped, and Frank Abbott and his colleagues on the Force respect her enough to face fact when Lucius Bellingdon's secretary is killed while retrieving a valuable necklace from his bank in Ledlington.
Bellingdon engages Maud to go undercover as his new secretary, since the theft required inside information. She balks at this, not being a typist, but this isn't really a problem; he has 2 secretaries, the senior of which was the victim, who was really more of an assistant to Bellingdon - sorting wheat from chaff in his correspondence and so on - while the other secretary is the one required to possess the more usual job skills. Going undercover, of course, presents no problems; her experience as a governess gave her one of her greatest professional assets, the ability to pass unnoticed in a drawing room as well as on the street.
Some really entertaining stuff, apart from the usual well-presented puzzle: Maud's private opinion of what people invariably say when information has leaked, and how little men know about what gossip really goes on; Bellingdon's widowed daughter Moira, who's too much of a Philistine to understand when David Moray wants to paint her as Medusa; Moira's old acquaintance, Moray's neighbour Sally, with her job fielding silly letters to the author Marigold Marchbanks (that part's *really* cute). The characters are far from bland, so this qualifies as a good novel as well as a good mystery.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
As good as the rest!
By Jadiecook
The Miss Silver mysteries are great British reads. I'm a big fan of Georgette Heyer and the Miss Silver mysteries have that charming quality with enchanting characters and great dialog. Read them in order as several characters make reappearances! The mysteries are solid too! I prefer this genre of British mystery over the modern gory pop fiction some people enjoy. Give me a good story, some suspense, lots of laughs and a happy ending every time.
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