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Would you consider Patricia Wentworth?
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(01-27-2008, 08:50 PM)MysteryMind Wrote: I read somewhere that Patricia Wentworth wrote gothic romantic mysteries.  I recently read "The Clock Struck Twelve", which features the amateur sleuth, Miss Silver.  I enjoyed the book but I'm not sure I would consider it gothic.  It read more like a mystery, although at the beginning it did seem to have a gothic feel to it.  There was romance but I guess the element of life-threatening suspense was missing.  There was suspense as she keeps you guessing who the murderer was, but it was not "life-threatening".  I wondered if anyone has read any of her other books and would recommend any as gothic?

Wentworth's books are British cozies with some Gothic trappings.  
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RE: Would you consider Patricia Wentworth? - by Penfeather - 09-06-2015, 02:30 AM

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