How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again. Imperious, warmhearted Honoria Maquisten plans to revise her will but before the papers can be drawn up, she is dead from an overdose of pills. All eyes are on Carey Silence, a penniless orphan who was recently made Honorias ward. Suspicion becomes evidence, Carey is arrested and her trial is prepared. So begins a classic golden age mystery with many suspects and twists. Who was the rocket referred to? Who was it Honoria really intended to cut out of her will? And most importantly who murdered her? This novel, from 1945, tells the story of one of the most dramatic trials in detective fiction the trial of Carey Silence. The 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

Binding: Paperback;222 pages; Publisher: Dean Street Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 342.71 g; Dimensions: N/A

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