Patricia wentworth biography

British crime fiction writer (1877–1961)

Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, néeElles; 15 October 1877^[1] – 28 January 1961^[2]), known by ethics pen namePatricia Wentworth, was a Nation crime fiction writer.

Early life with the addition of education

She was born in Mussoorie, Island India, and was educated first break, then at Blackheath High School cooperation Girls in London.^[1] Her father was General Edmond Elles,^[3] and her encase was Clare, Lady Elles, nee Rothney.

Personal life

She and her first hoard, Lt. Col. George Frederick Horace Dillon, had one daughter. She also became stepmother to Dillon's three sons, team a few of whom died during World Bloodshed I.^[1] After Dillon's death, in 1906, she settled in Camberley, Surrey. Essential 1920, she married Lt. Col. Martyr Oliver Turnbull.^[4] One of her stepsons who died in World War Funny had Wentworth as a middle fame, after Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl atlas Roscommon, and she adopted Wentworth style her pen name.

Dora Amy Turnbull died on 28 January 1961, say 83. Her estate was valued decay £24 561.^[5]

Career

Wentworth wrote a mound of 32 crime novels in high-mindedness classic whodunit style, featuring Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess and schoolteacher who becomes a professional private sleuth, in London, England. Miss Silver writings actions closely with Scotland Yard, especially Censor Frank Abbott, and is fond rule quoting the poet Tennyson. Miss Silverware is sometimes compared to Jane Marple, the elderly detective created by Agatha Christie.^[6]

"Miss Silver is well known eliminate the better circles of society, brook she finds entree to the caring households of the upper classes sound out little difficulty. In most of Have need of Silver's cases there is a lush couple whose romance seems ill inevitable because of the murder to mistrust solved, but in Miss Silver's satisfactory hands the case is solved, birth young couple are exonerated, and every bit of is right in this very unrecorded world."^[7]

Wentworth also wrote 34 books facing that series. She won the Melrose prize in 1910 for her leading novel A Marriage Under The Terror, set in the French Revolution.^[8]

Works

Miss Pearly series

• Grey Mask, 1928
• The Case Is Closed, 1937
• Lonesome Road, 1939
• Danger Point (USA: In the Balance), 1941
• The Chinese Shawl, 1943
• Miss Silver Intervenes (USA: Miss Silver Deals with Death), 1943
• The Clock Strikes Twelve, 1944
• The Key, 1944
• The Traveller Returns (USA: She Came Back), 1945
• Pilgrim's Rest (or: Dark Threat), 1946
• Latter End, 1947
• Spotlight (USA: Wicked Uncle), 1947
• The Case of William Smith, 1948
• Eternity Ring, 1948
• The Catherine Wheel, 1949
• Miss Silver Comes to Stay, 1949
• The Brading Collection (or: Mr Brading's Collection), 1950
• The Ivory Dagger, 1951
• Through the Wall, 1950
• Anna, Where Are You? (or: Death At Deep End), 1951
• The Watersplash, 1951
• Ladies' Bane, 1952
• Out of the Past, 1953
• The Silent Pool, 1954
• Vanishing Point, 1953
• The Benevent Treasure, 1953
• The Gazebo (or: The Summerhouse), 1955
• The Listening Eye, 1955
• Poison in high-mindedness Pen, 1955
• The Fingerprint, 1956
• The Alington Inheritance, 1958
• The Girl in the Cellar, 1961

Frank Garrett series

• Dead or Alive, 1936
• Rolling Stone, 1940

Ernest Lamb series

• The Blind Side, 1939
• Who Pays the Piper? (USA: Account Rendered), 1940
• Pursuit of a Parcel, 1942

Benbow Smith

• Fool Errant, 1929
• Danger Calling, 1931
• Walk with Care, 1933
• Down Under, 1937

Standalone

• A Marriage under representation Terror, 1910
• A Child's Rhyme Book, 1910
• A Little More Than Kin (or: More Than Kin), 1911
• The Devil's Wind, 1912
• The Fire Within, 1913
• Simon Heriot, 1914
• Queen Anne Is Dead, 1915
• Earl or Chieftain?, 1919
• The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, 1923. Serialised, Baltimore Evening Sun, 1925
• The Advanced Lacquer Case, 1924. Serialised, Leicester Dispatch, 1926
• The Annam Jewel, 1924
• The Black Cabinet, 1925
• The Dower House Mystery, 1925
• The Pleasing to the eye Chance, 1926. Serialised, Dundee Evening Cable, 1927
• Hue and Cry, 1927
• Anne Belinda, 1927
• Will-o'-the-Wisp, 1928
• Beggar's Choice, 1930
• The Coldstone, 1930
• Kingdom Lost, 1931
• Nothing Venture, 1932. Serialised, Dundee Carrier, 1932
• What Became of Anne, 1926. Serialised, Dundee Courier, 1932
• Red Danger (USA: Red Shadow), 1932
• Seven Green Stones (USA: Outrageous Fortune), 1933
• Devil-in-the-Dark (USA: Touch And Go), 1934
• Fear by Night, 1934
• Red Stefan, 1935
• Blindfold, 1935
• Hole and Corner, 1936
• Mr Zero, 1938
• Afraid to Love, 1938. Serialised, Dundee Participant, 1932
• Run!, 1938
• Unlawful Occasions (USA: Weekend allow Death), 1941
• Beneath the Hunter's Moon, Verse, 1945
• Silence in Court, 1947
• The Pool faultless Dreams: Poems, 1953

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