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The Clock Strikes Twelve (Miss Silver #7)

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This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Patricia Wentworth (1878-1961)

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Title:The Clock Strikes Twelve (Miss Silver #7)
Author:
Elles, Dora Amy  Writing under the pseudonym: Wentworth, Patricia   
(13 of 51 for author by title)
The Coldstone
The Chinese Shawl (Miss Silver #5)
Published:   1945
Publisher:Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Tags:detective, fiction, Miss Silver (Fictional character), mystery, female detectives
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The story takes place during World War II. The clock rings in a New Year at midnight just as someone is murdered. There are more than a few unlikeable personalities running around within this book. It almost makes the reader wish they would all get picked by the police just for being the nerve-racking menaces which they are.

A party takes place on New Year's Eve. A house holiday celebration. A budding romance. A murder at midnight. A room full of sour relations who are suspects. Although the mystery is a typical spin-off of classic murderous fiction, the plot is well written in the Wentworth style. Eventually, the services of Miss Silver are called in. She has her hands full with a room full of suspects, all of whom have a motive for murder. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Elles, Dora Amy

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Dora Amy Elles (November 10, 1878 - January 28, 1961) wrote under the pen name of Patricia Wentworth. She was a British crime writer, best known for her Miss Silver Mysteries, though she also wrote romantic novels. Miss Silver is frequently compared to Agatha Christie's Jane Marple, though Patricia Wentworth's first Miss Silver novel pre-dated Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple novel by two years, and may well have inspired Agatha Christie.

In Marion Shaw & Sabine Vanacker's book Reflecting on Miss Marple, they said: "while Miss Marple may receive ten times the attention as Miss Silver, ... the woefully neglected Miss Silver is the real deal - a professional investigator and a stand-up woman, a true forerunner of all future female private eyes."

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