The Gazebo

Description:

Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother seldom visits the gazebo- yet she is found dead in it one morning.The Graham estate had once enjoyed a rural view, but now the grounds are part of suburban London and the gazebo is an anachronistic summerhouse. Scotland Yard becomes suspisious of Althea and her fiance, the dashing foreign correspondent Nicholas Carey, because the death of her mother frees them to be married at last. Miss Silver is fortunately a friend of Althea sand comes to the rescue, complete with knitting needles, a gentle smile, and the preception of a mind reader Also published as The Summerhouse. Miss Silver Mystery #28

subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  Silver, maud (fictitious character), fiction,  England, fiction,  London (england), fiction,  Mystery fiction,  Silver Maud (Fictitious character)--Fiction,  Women private investigators--England--Fiction,  Silver, Maud (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.,  Maud Silver (Fictitious character),  Women private investigators,  Fiction

People: Miss Maud Silver,  Frank Abbott

Places: England

Times: Written in 1956,  1947,  just after the end of World War II.