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 …

Author Bio

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.

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