Eternity Ring

Eternity Ring is another first class detective story by Patricia Wentworth featuring Private Enquiry Agent Miss Maud Silver and Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Lamb and Detective Serjeant Frank Abbott. Serjeant Abbott is visiting relatives in the country when his rural idyll is shattered by a young woman who claims to have seen the body of a woman in the woods but when a search is made no trace can be found. Thus begins another complex and vastly entertaining Wentworth mystery with it's full supply of red herrings and intriguing characters. Much of the pleasure of Miss Wentworth's books for me is her ability to use the English language to convey all the tension of a thriller without reorting to gratuitous violence and obscenities. This may be an old fashioned view but one more widely held than some writers realise.