Out Of The Past

In Out Of The Past Patricia Wentworth gives us another splendid "whodunnit". Miss Maud Silver is on holiday in Cliffton with her neice Ethel, mother of the children for whom Miss Silver is constantly knitting. Into this quiet backwater comes Alan Field, a prize rotter, who has money on his mind and no scruples about how he gets it. There is no surprise when he is murdered and no shortage of people with motives for committing the crime. When Detective Inspector Abbott of Scotland Yard is brought in the "old firm" is once again on the case and with Miss Silver's sense of justice a satisfactory, if not strictly legal, conclusion is produced. Miss Wentworth has spun another compelling yarn.