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Although Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother rarely visited the gazebo on their property, she is found dead there one morning. So Althea and her longtime fiance are finally free to marry. They are also the chief suspects. Fortunately Miss Silver is a friend of Althea's. Read more
Publisher : Reading Essentials
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Publication date : February 8, 2019
Language : English
File size : 306 KB
Screen Reader : Supported
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Top Amazon Reviews
Format: Kindle
Wonderful little mystery. Loved the authors writing. Truly a good mystery, keeps you wondering how it will all come out.
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2024 by M.E Moffa
Format: Kindle
Good mystery by a good storyteller. Just enough detective work needed on the part of the reader with a little romance thrown in.
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2019 by Teach
Written towards the end of the series the action is set in the fifties in an English village now on the outskirts of London. It is slower in pace than most but this allows for great character development which I enjoy. A lot of humour and the requisite body found most inconveniantly for the young lovers and their trip to the altar. All comes right as Miss Silver sorts it all out deftly dealing with all the miscreants making it all come right in the end. This series is a great read if your mind isn't up to anything complicated. It is a vacation in book form. Great reading on the beach or a cruise or if the January blahs have got you in their grip. I don't know what is going on with the kindle print editions. I wrote this from my kindle version and it's ended up here in the audio books. The version I bought says it's unavailable and there is a newer version for sale on the kindle, for less, but without the cover art. I also noticed that my earlier kindle book listed a lot more pages than the new version. I'm going to copy this review over to the new version.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2014 by overtakenbyanap
Format: Kindle
Althea Graham is a very dutiful daughter taking care of her vain, selfish, manipulative, widowed mother. The mother had broken up a romance between Althea and Nicholas by feigning various illnesses, aided by a doddering doctor who agreed that any stress might give her a heart attack. The mother had been a beauty as a young woman and spent a lot of time and money staying attractive and younger than her age. Althea and Nicholas broke up, he left town and roamed the world for 5 years. Both he and Althea were devastated and did not try to find another mate. He returned to the town to pick up some possessions he had left, they saw each other across the room at a party, and immediately the romance was rekindled. They planned to marry in a quiet ceremony but the mother is killed in a gazebo and Nicholas is blamed. Miss Silver happens to be in the neighborhood, meets Althea, and manages to solve the crime. The couple marry after the mother's funeral and presumably live happily ever after. Good writing , good plot. I rate this novel 8.3 of 10.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2025 by Virginia Reader
Patricia Wentworth wrote mysteries during the same time period as Agatha Christie, and continued writing them well into her seventies, as did her more well-known peer. The sleuth of her mysteries is an elderly spinster named Miss Maud Silver and she has often been compared to Miss Marple. Personally, other than the obvious, I don't think they have much in common. For one thing, in none of the Miss Silver books does she appear to have a personal life, we never seem to get introduced to anyone who knows her intimately (at least in the books I've read), unlike Miss Marple and her nephews, her friends in the village, and the girls she trains. I feel that I know Miss Marple, whereas Miss Silver remains a book character. This book, The Gazebo, is no different in that regard, although Miss Silver become s a part of the mystery through friends and family. (We just hear about them, never get to meet them or see them interact with Miss Silver.) On the plus side, the thing that I like about Miss Silver, over Miss Marple, is that while Miss M. plays a lone hand in figuring out the mystery, Miss S. works with her clients (she's a professional sleuth, unlike Miss M.) to solve the mystery. She gets involved with their lives and is sympathetic toward them, which I like and draws me in. In most of Wentworth's books there is a romance involving her client and she becomes sympathetically involved in it, which also makes her more human and likable. But almost always the romantic characters seem to dominate the story. When there is a particularly good mystery that doesn't seem to matter so much (like in The Benevent Treasure, or Lonesome Road), but in The Gazebo the mystery is fairly pedestrian and the characters are all fairly bland. It's hard to work up much worry about the heroine who abandoned the love of her life in order to slave for an overbearing and frankly hideous mother. That's the main problem with this story, which was written toward the end of Wentworth's career: There is no one to really root for. Except perhaps the gossiping Pimm sisters who are written with the most attention and gusto. They have all the color, all the drive, and all the interest. Unfortunately, they don't appear in the story until fairly late. I enjoyed reading this book, mainly because of it's British setting. But it felt less like a mystery and more like a romance from the Fifties--and a fairly slow romance at that. I kept putting the book down--it took a long time to finish it. If you're finding Patricia Wentworth for the first time I wouldn't advise reading this as the way to start.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2016 by Nancy Drew
Quite a few suspects and a nasty murder--but the victim was really asking for it. You will probably guess whodunnit, but there is still a lot of fun getting there. Good essence of time and place with the characters being well drawn. A little long, but a speedy reader can handle it.
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2010 by Joseph Yeater
A good mystery
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2026 by lenore arnow
Althea Graham finds her mother's dead body in the gazebo one morning. Only the night before Mrs. Graham had surprised her daughter meeting her lover Nicholas in the gazebo, and Mrs. Graham had a fit of hysteria. A supposed invalid, she had been working hard for years to keep Althea from marrying. Naturally the police suspect Nicolas of wishing to rid himself of a potentially dreadful mother-in-law. Happily Miss Silver is in the neighborhood and has befriended Althea. She is a great champion of young lovers. Miss Silver, through acts of kindness and carefully orchestrated gossip finds out things Inspector Frank Abbott never thought of. Abbott has risen in the ranks at Scotland Yard. He is no longer the lowly Sergeant who worked hand and glove with Miss Silver in the earlier books. With his rise he is apt to be more skeptical of Miss Silver's more farfetched ideas. But of course he comes 'round in the end. The plot encompasses shady characters, a flashy termagant, a pushy estate agent, downtrodden spouses, and a delightful trio of accomplished town gossips. The long frustrated love of Althea and Nicolas engages the reader's sympathy. Who can resist Patricia Wentworth's star-crossed lovers? I could see the way things were going in the hunt for the murderer, but this did not lessen my enjoyment. There is never a dark ending in the Miss Silver mysteries, and that's the attraction for me. Although The Gazebo appeared in 1955, it is steeped in the atmosphere of the Golden Age. Justice prevails and love triumphs, while Miss Silver advances steadily in her knitting projects. Fans of Miss Silver should appreciate this book. It should also be entertaining for someone new to the series.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016 by Patto