The Listening Eye

This is another excellent who-dunnit by the late Patricia Wentworth. Miss Paine, a lady of middle years whose hearing was totally destroyed by a bomb blast during the Blitz, attends a gallery where her portrait is displayed and chances upon a plot to rob and murder a man carrying a valuable necklace. The conspirators are unaware of her ability to lip-read and imagine themselves safe until one is informed of her facility by a garrulous attendant at the gallery. Miss Paine, unsure of her reception at a police station with this information consults Miss Silver and thereafter we are treated to another of Miss Wentworth's well written stories. Bliss!