How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again.
Imperious, warm-hearted Honoria Maquisten plans to revise her will - but before the papers can be drawn up, she is dead from an overdose of pills.
All eyes are on Carey Silence, a penniless orphan who was recently made Honoria's ward.
Suspicion becomes evidence, Carey is arrested and her trial is prepared.
So begins a classic golden age mystery with many suspects and twists.
Who was the 'rocket' referred to? Who was it Honoria really intended to cut out of her will? And most importantly - who murdered her? This novel, from 1945, tells the story of one of the most dramatic trials in detective fiction - the trial of Carey Silence.
The new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself - and I always do.
Mary Dell, Daily Mirror.
Dean Street Press Silence in court: a golden age mystery, paperback/patricia wentworth
