James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea.
The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona's past, destroys the holiday atmosphere in the old house and replaces it with a mounting tension, culminating in murder.
Fortunately, Miss Silver is present to unravel the complex mystery and seek out the murderer amongst them.
Read MorePatricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything - Paula GoslingMiss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller' - Daily TelegraphMiss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot - Manchester Evening NewsMiss Silver is marvellous - Daily MailMiss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying - The ScotsmanYou can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver - Observer. . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery - Alfred Hitchcock magazine