Silence in Court: A Golden Age Mystery

How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week an heiress for a week then down with the stick and a stranger again.Imperious warm-hearted Honoria Maquisten plans to revise her will - but before the papers can be drawn up she is dead from an overdose of pills. All eyes are on Carey Silence a penniless orphan who was recently made Honorias ward. Suspicion becomes evidence Carey is arrested and her trial is prepared. So begins a classic golden age mystery with many suspects and twists. Who was the rocket referred to? Who was it Honoria really intended to cut out of her will? And most importantly - who murdered her?This novel from 1945 tells the story of one of the most dramatic trials in detective fiction - the trial of Carey Silence. The new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think now to enjoy myself - and I always do. Mary Dell Daily Mirror