The Red Lacquer Case, Patricia Wentworth
The Red Lacquer Case, Patricia Wentworth
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The Red Lacquer Case

Author: Patricia Wentworth

Narrator: Graham Scott

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2023

Synopsis

Sally Meredith is in deadly danger after her mercurial uncle “Fritzi,” the genius chemist and inventor M. Frederic Lasalle, disappears into the night. He leaves her as the only person who knows how to open the Chinese puzzle box in which he has concealed the formula for his latest invention: a new gas, sudden, swift, and deadly beyond anything ever before devised. Soon, Sally is in the clutches of sinister foreign agents, and her former fiancé Bill Armitage, of the War Office, with the aid of a Scotland Yard detective, desperately searches for her …

About Patricia Wentworth

Patricia Wentworth (1877–1961) was a British author of crime fiction, chiefly famous for her series of thirty-two whodunit mysteries featuring Miss Maud Silver. Wentworth began her writing career in 1910 with her first novel A Marriage Under The Terror, set in the French Revolution, which won the Melrose prize, and wrote over thirty other novels of mystery and adventure outside the Miss Silver series.

About Graham Scott

Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and The Online Stage. Website: GrahamScottAudio.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ann

A war-time entertainment, with the usual elements that Patricia Wentworth used in her thrillers (as opposed to her Miss Silver mysteries) : - the thwarted romance between the pert young girl (Sally) and the solid and worthy young man (Bill Armitage) - the object of great war-time importance, coveted......more

Goodreads review by Julie

Knowing this was one of Patricia Wentworth's earliest novels, I'm surprised by how well it is written - even better than Agatha Christie's early attempts, in my opinion. Wonderful character development, and very engaging characters. Plenty of unexpected twists and turns. Difficult to put down.......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

Agatha Christie was, of course, a highly successful mystery writer but unfortunately her success and her prolific output overshadowed a lot of other interesting writers. Luckily Dean Street Press are republishing a lot of these forgotten writers including Patricia Wentworth, a contemporary of Christ......more

Goodreads review by ValeReads

Only three Wentworth books have made it into audio (I think they're trickling into the public domain, so more should be forthcoming), and I was going to pace myself, but I jumped right into this second one right away, gobbled it up, and have already started the third. They're actually in a collectio......more

Goodreads review by Annabel

I am a huge fan of Patricia Wentworth and having devoured all her Miss Silver mysteries dozens of times, I have begun working my way through the light romances she wrote as a young woman, before she developed her more famous detective story style. My reasoning is that I enjoy her writing style and a......more

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