Pen name Patricia Wentworth Role Fiction writer Name Patricia Wentworth | Genre CrimeDetective Occupation Novelist | |
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Notable awards Melrose1910 A Marriage Under The Terror Spouse George F. DillonGeorge Oliver Turnbull (1920) Books Grey Mask, Miss Silver Comes to Stay, The Chinese Shawl, Poison in the Pen, The Case Is Closed | ||
100 books you must read 45 the traveller returns by patricia wentworth
Patricia Wentworth (born Dora Amy Elles; 10 November 1877 – 28 January 1961) was a British crime fiction writer.
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- 100 books you must read 45 the traveller returns by patricia wentworth
- Top 20 Quotes of Patricia Wentworth Fiction writer
- Early life and education
- Personal life
- Career
- Miss Silver series
- Frank Garrett series
- Ernest Lamb series
- Benbow Smith
- Standalone
- References
☝ Top 20 Quotes of Patricia Wentworth - Fiction writer
Early life and education
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.
Personal life
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.
Career
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.
"Miss Silver is well known in the better circles of society, and she finds entree to the troubled households of the upper classes with little difficulty. In most of Miss Silver's cases there is a young couple whose romance seems ill fated because of the murder to be solved, but in Miss Silver's competent hands the case is solved, the young couple are exonerated, and all is right in this very traditional world."
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. Her novels were the topic of Jariel D. O'Neil's 1988 doctoral dissertation.