The Alington inheritance
by Patricia Wentworth
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When a question of inheritance turns fatal, Miss Silver searches for the killer.
Jenny has never been one to feel sorry for herself. The illegitimate child of a wealthy man and a stature less woman, she has been an orphan since before she can remember. It is a hard life made bearable only by the kindness of her guardian, an old woman named Miss Garstone, who has always treated Jenny as her own. Struck down by a motorist, “Garsty” dies, whispering to Jenny that her parents were actually married, and she is the rightful heir to the Alington fortune.
Miss Garstone was not the only one who knew the secret, and as Jenny grieves, her wealthy cousins work to protect their fortune. When the quiet conflict turns deadly, governess-turned-detective Miss Silver is the only one who can unravel the perplexing family saga.
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England, fiction, Silver, maud (fictitious character), fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Mystery fiction, Silver Maud (Fictitious character)--Fiction, Women private investigators--England--Fiction, Women detectives, Maud Silver (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Women private investigators, Mystery, secret inheritancePeople
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The Alington Inheritance: A Miss Silver Mystery
August 1992, Harpercollins
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Originally published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1960.
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