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DORA AMY ELLES

1877 - 1961

Writing as: Patricia Wentworth


According to Wikipedia: "She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London.

She and her first husband, George F. Dillon, had one daughter. She also became stepmother to Dillon's two sons, one of whom died in the Somme during World War I. After Dillon's death, in 1906, she settled in Camberley, Surrey. In 1920, she married George Oliver Turnbull, and they had one daughter.

Wentworth wrote a series of 32 crime novels in the classic whodunit style, featuring Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess and teacher who becomes a professional private detective, in London, England. Miss Silver works closely with Scotland Yard, especially Inspector Frank Abbott, and is fond of quoting the poet Tennyson. Miss Silver is sometimes compared to Jane Marple, the elderly detective created by Agatha Christie.

Wentworth also wrote 34 books outside of that series. She won the Melrose prize in 1910 for her first novel A Marriage Under The Terror, set in the French Revolution."



Series Books
 
Benbow Smith Fool Errant (1929)
  Danger Calling (1931)
  Walk With Care (1933)
  Down Under (1937)
  The Complete Benbow Smith Mysteries (2018)
 
Frank Garrett Danger Calling (1931)
  Walk With Care (1933)
  Dead Or Alive (1936)
  Rolling Stone (1940)
  Pursuit Of A Parcel (1942)
 
Other The Alington Inheritance [Miss Silver] (1958)
  The Amazing Chance (1926)
  Anna Where Are You? aka Death at Deep End [Miss Silver] (1951)
  The Annam Jewel (1924)
  Anne Belinda (1927)
  The Astonishing Case of Jane Smith (1923)
  Beggar''s Choice (1930)
  The Benevent Treasure [Miss Silver] (1954)
  The Black Cabinet (1925)
  The Blind Side [Ernest Lamb] (1939)
  Blindfold (1935)
  The Brading Collection aka Mr Brading's Collection [Miss Silver] (1950)
  The Case Is Closed [Miss Silver] (1937)
  The Case of William Smith [Miss Silver] (1948)
  The Catherine Wheel [Miss Silver] (1949)
  The Chinese Shawl [Miss Silver] (1943)
  The Clock Strikes Twelve [Miss Silver] (1944)
  The Coldstone (1930)
  Danger Point aka In the Balance [Miss Silver] (1941)
  Devil in the Dark aka Touch And Go (1934)
  The Dower House Mystery (1925)
  Eternity Ring [Miss Silver] (1948)
  Fear By Night (1934)
  The Fingerprint [Miss Silver] (1956)
  The Fire Within (1913)
  The Gazebo aka The Summerhouse [Miss Silver] (1955)
  The Girl in the Cellar [Miss Silver] (1961)
  Grey Mask [Miss Silver] (1928)
  Hole and Corner (1936)
  Hue and Cry (1927)
  The Ivory Dagger [Miss Silver] (1950)
  The Key [Miss Silver] (1944)
  Kingdom Lost (1930)
  Ladies' Bane [Miss Silver] (1952)
  Latter End [Miss Silver] (1947)
  The Listening Eye [Miss Silver] (1955)
  Lonesome Road [Miss Silver] (1939)
  Miss Silver Comes to Stay [Miss Silver] (1949)
  Miss Silver Intervenes aka Miss Silver Deals with Death [Miss Silver] (1943)
  Mr Zero (1938)
  Nothing Venture (1932)
  Out of the Past [Miss Silver] (1953)
  Pilgrim's Rest aka Dark Threat [Miss Silver] (1946)
  Poison in the Pen [Miss Silver] (1955)
  Pursuit of a Parcel [Ernest Lamb] (1942)
  Queen Anne is Dead (1915)
  Red Danger aka Red Shadow (1932)
  The Red Lacquer Case (1924)
  Red Stefan (1935)
  Run! (1938)
  Seven Green Stones aka Outrageous Fortune (1933)
  She Came Back aka The Traveller Returns [Miss Silver] (1945)
  Silence in Court (1945)
  The Silent Pool [Miss Silver] (1953)
  Spotlight aka Wicked Uncle [Miss Silver] (1947)
  Through the Wall [Miss Silver] (1950)
  Unlawful Occasions aka Weekend with Death (1941)
  The Vanishing Point [Miss Silver] (1953)
  The Watersplash [Miss Silver] (1951)
  Who Pays the Piper aka Account Rendered [Ernest Lamb] (1940)
  Will o'' the Wisp (1928)