The Watersplash

Since I started writing this blog I have reviewed eight of the Maud Silver mysteries by Patricia Wentworth and have run out of new ways to praise her work. In The Watersplash we have murder tied to an inheritance in a small country village in the Home Counties. Yes I know that most of her plots follow this kind of theme but Wentworth scores by her skill as a storyteller. The characters are well drawn and their are the requisite number of red herrings in a narrative that carries the reader along with style and old world charm.