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.