The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith: A Golden Age Mystery

The door! he shouted. The door! Every man in the room looked where Fifteen was looking. Above the water-lilies and the storks where the top panel of the door had shown there was a dark empty space. The door was open.A girl clad only in a night dress is found walking in her sleep. Had she heard too much? Should she be eliminated? Jane Smith an impecunious and intrepid heroine finds herself in the wrong place at the right time swept into an adventure which will include imposture peril romance and... murder.The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith the first of Patricia Wentworths mystery novels was originally published in 1923. This 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