ManyRoads reviewed Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
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2 stars
To quote the heroine in this story... the story is "frightfully dull."
English language
Published Nov. 1, 1986 by Warner Books.
Grey Mask
Patricia Wentworth: Grey Mask (1986, Warner Books)
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- 978-0-446-30135-0
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2 stars
(3 reviews)
The first of the classic mysteries featuring governess-turned-detective Miss Silver, who investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring.
Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime. Never one for the heroic, Charles’s first instinct is to let the police settle it. But then he hears her voice. Margaret, his long lost love, is part of the gang. To unravel their diabolical plot, he contacts Miss Silver, a onetime governess who applies her reason to solve crimes and face the dangers of London’s underworld.
the_lirazel reviewed Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
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3 stars
There was not one single thing about this book that was in any way realistic, but it was pretty fun.
urbaer reviewed Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
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2 stars
I suppose what I want in a detective novel is following the detective. Sadly Miss Silver barely appears in the book and when she does it's to info dump things the main character couldn't have found out by themselves. There's some sections where you get to see her do field work, but on the whole she just knits.
So the prose is light and easily readable, but there's a bit of slang that tripped me up on occasion.
The male lead is fairly unlikeable, some of this may be as a result of being left at the altar, but eh.
So the mystery then. A grand conspiracy taking place to steal an inheritance. But who is the mastermind of this conspiracy
Sadly it's telegraphed about two thirds of the way through, which made the rest of the book a bit of a slog.
I don't know if this a series …
I suppose what I want in a detective novel is following the detective. Sadly Miss Silver barely appears in the book and when she does it's to info dump things the main character couldn't have found out by themselves. There's some sections where you get to see her do field work, but on the whole she just knits.
So the prose is light and easily readable, but there's a bit of slang that tripped me up on occasion.
The male lead is fairly unlikeable, some of this may be as a result of being left at the altar, but eh.
So the mystery then. A grand conspiracy taking place to steal an inheritance. But who is the mastermind of this conspiracy
Sadly it's telegraphed about two thirds of the way through, which made the rest of the book a bit of a slog.
I don't know if this a series I'll continue. I really didn't feel like I got to know Miss Silver at all, so it's hard to know.