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The Clock Strikes Twelve

Patricia Wentworth

New Year's Eve 1940 is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing from tradition James Paradine makes a speech that changes the course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to confess and return the papers.



A few minutes after twelve James Paradine is dead.



It is left to Miss Silver to disentangle the threads that bind the Paradine family in a strange web of dislike hatred and fear.

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  • Classification : Thriller, Crime & Mystery
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Hodder Paperbacks
  • Page Extent : 352
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780340682623
  • Price : INR 799
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Patricia Wentworth

Patricia Wentworth (born Dora Amy Elles) was a British crime fiction writer. She was educated privately and at Blackheath High School in London. She wrote a series of 32 classic-style whodunnits featuring Miss Silver, the first of which was published in 1928, and the last in 1961, the year of her death. Wentworth also wrote 34 books outside of that series.

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