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Weekend with Death Kindle Edition

by Patricia Wentworth (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
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This thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries offers fascinating insight into the British mindset during World War II
 
While waiting for a train connection, Sarah Marlowe is drawn into a conversation with an elderly woman who is also traveling alone. For the past five years, Emily Case has lived in Italy as companion to a wealthy aristocrat. She tells Sarah an incredible tale of being entrusted with a package by a stranger dying of a stab wound. Soon afterward, on the train to London, Sarah discovers the selfsame package in her own handbag. The next day, she learns Emily has been murdered.
 
The police are asking all potential witnesses to come forward, but Sarah is afraid to lose her position as secretary to the president of the New Psychical Society. Then she makes an alarming discovery. Forced to rely on a seductive stranger she isn’t sure she can trust, Sarah must outwit someone who will do anything to retrieve the contents of the mysterious package . . . someone who has killed before and won’t hesitate to strike again.
 
Beloved crime writer Patricia Wentworth layers romance, adventure, and gothic intrigue in this exciting thriller.
 
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“Adventure . . . in the gooseflesh tradition.” —Kirkus Reviews
 

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Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961) was one of the masters of classic English mystery writing. Born in India as Dora Amy Elles, she began writing after the death of her first husband, publishing her first novel in 1910. In the 1920s, she introduced the character who would make her famous: Miss Maud Silver, the former governess whose stout figure, fondness for Tennyson, and passion for knitting served to disguise a keen intellect. Along with Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Miss Silver is the definitive embodiment of the English style of cozy mysteries.
 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DLGKZ3Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (May 17, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4033 KB
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  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 213 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 480 ratings

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Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961) was one of the masters of English mystery writing. She published her first novel in 1910 and, in the 1920s, introduced the character who would make her famous: Miss Maud Silver. Along with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, Miss Silver is the definitive embodiment of the English style of cozy mysteries.

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Virginia Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat dark story, good ending
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2021
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The bad guy is quite bad, the heroine is one of Wentworth's females who becomes dysfunctional with stress but manages to rally and survive, and the hero seems questionable until the end. The romance of the story, which seems to have been very important but well concealed, is almost a second thought and comes on at the end. Characters are well defined but irritating, and several are not what they appear to be. A good story, although with a number of loose ends and not one of the author's best.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2021
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Not quite up to the master in A Christie, but entertaining, and moving along. Good characters, pretty well fleshed out. Good plotline.
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Savvy Girl
5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019
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This is my third Wentworth mystery so far, and I'm sure I've stumbled on a gold mine. Each mystery is different--no set pieces that appear in each novel, no typical scenes--instead, an engrossing mystery that's hard to put down. Weekend with Death is my favourite so far, and I can't wait to start the next.
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Patto
3.0 out of 5 stars Wacky characters, creepy atmosphere
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2016
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In this 1941 novel, Patricia Wentworth tries her hand at intrigue. Sarah Marlowe, a young woman who works as secretary to the president of a new psychical society, gets caught up in a dangerous game of espionage.

The plot is full of coincidences, nefarious conversations conveniently overheard, and close calls for Sarah and the handsome chauffeur who may be her friend -- or may be working for "them."

Most of the action takes place in a deserted old house said to be the site of manifestations. The house has a violent history and an evil ambiance. It’s bitter cold outside, frigid in most rooms of the old house, and freezing in the railroad waiting room where Sarah's misadventures begin. The unrelenting cold reinforces the atmosphere of dread.

To relieve the cloak and dagger goings on, there's a romance unfolding. No Wentworth novel would be without it. But this attraction is not quite as satisfying as her usual witty relationships. However, Sarah has sympathetic qualities. Although often in a state of terror, she is resourceful in a crisis. She is also kind, and inspires kindness in unexpected quarters.

This is not among my favorite Wentworth novels, but I'm reading them all because when Wentworth is good, she's very good. Even when she's not at her best, she's still entertaining.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024
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This is a vintage style story; nonstop action and many twists and turns. It's something between a mystery and a thriller, like an old Hitchcock movie. Highly recommend.
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SRG
4.0 out of 5 stars SO GOOD!
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022
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Excellent story, well drawn characters, good plot twists! Well-read mystery lovers will undoubtedly figure out certain points but the story is so captivating you could just miss the clues given along the way! Just another read that proves Wentworth is worth her salt!!
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Jacqueline M Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great author
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020
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Wentworth is a true storyteller and an enjoyable read. I haven't read her Mrs. Silver series yet but reading what I have read so far, I am sure I will like it.
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Norman McBride
5.0 out of 5 stars Suspenseful
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2020
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Great plot. Kept me up all night reading. Even though the setting is long ago the mystery is timeless. Love Patricia Wentworth.
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Marion
5.0 out of 5 stars Mysterious and suspenseful as usual.
Reviewed in Canada on March 31, 2021
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I enjoy all of Patricia Wentworth's books.
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Ron
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2022
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Very good mystery thriller. Worth keeping to read again in the future.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Curl up with a Box of chocolates.
Reviewed in Australia on June 4, 2017
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Patricia Wentworth always write a good straightforward mystery. It could have had an extra star except she makes a little too much use of coincidence. I must admit I was thrilled when I discovered all her Golden Age mysteries on Amazon as I have always loved her Miss Silver series and had found two of her standalone novels in a thrift shop many. many years ago. Ms Wentworth also uses impeccable grammar, always a bonus as one doesn't have to waste time wincing at yet another gratuitous error.
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Dr. DNA
4.0 out of 5 stars A Weekend With Death: sex, spies, and the occult
Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2021
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Patricia Wentworth writes great set-ups for her stories -- in this instance, a cold winter afternoon in a suburban railway station south of wartime London (1941) where the heroine, a long legged secretary to a couple of dodgy occult investigators, encounters a frightened elderly lady's companion who has just returned from Italy and believes she is being followed. It's foggy outside and the train is late and a shadowy figure lurks on the platform. While the pulp fiction texture is evident, PW's beginnings are always realistic, as are the characters (does anyone write better about the women of her time than her?). As a spy novel and as a gestalt of the period, the action is very good. True, it becomes more fantastic as we approach the ending -- a genre characteristic -- it nevertheless carries us forward by the volition of its superb language and human insight. No Miss Silver in this one, and the heroine dumps her boyfriend for a dangerous individual who isn't slow to put his hand on her knee, and maybe the use of coincidence is (as usual) abused, but no matter -- there's plenty of good stuff here for any reader interested in the period and the mystery adventure romance novel.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Suspense
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2016
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This is a great suspense novel. I'd categorise it as 'suspense' more than 'mystery', though it has a mystery element.

The beginning is fantastic, thriller-like, with a bizarre yet believable situation that had me on the edge of my seat, wanting to find out more.

The middle is ok, skirting the boundary between plausible and implausible. Some plot elements are so obvious and so clumsily handled, they made me cringe. Fortunately, there were still a few surprises which kept me going.

The ending picks up again with a good climax in an interesting dangerous situation.

Summary: Brilliant beginning - so-so middle - good ending.
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