by Patricia Wentworth, 1948
I got this book from a Little Free Library. It is a fun mystery. It’s set in 1940’s England, in a charming little village. You think you know who murdered James Lessiter all along, but it turns out to be someone completely unsuspected. Miss Silver, a beloved elderly governess turned private detective, figures it out and saves the innocents from being wrongly accused, although all the evidence pointed to them (Rietta Cray and her nephew, Carr Robertson). In the end, the good guys win and the bad guys are dead. The characters, the setting, the plot are so good – such a fun book to read, it really takes you away. I love these old English mysteries!