The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smi..., Patricia Wentworth
The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smi..., Patricia Wentworth
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The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith

Author: Patricia Wentworth

Narrator: Graham Scott

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2023

Synopsis

Timid Renata Molloy is in mortal peril after overhearing details of a breathtaking conspiracy. But her courageous and near-identical cousin Jane Smith—homeless and just two-and-elevenpence away from the workhouse—is willing to take her place if it means a roof over her head and plenty to eat. So Jane, with the help of Captain Henry March of Scotland Yard, whose hand in marriage she once refused, finds herself incognito at stately Luttrell Marches, enmeshed in a mystery of secret formulae, political plots, and a maze of secret doors and secret passages …

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: www.GrahamScottAudio.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy on September 02, 2016

I've been enjoying Patricia Wentworth's early stories, but didn't think this was as good as some of the others. The plot is completely bonkers, involving fiendish anarchists, lookalike cousins and secret passages galore. Once again, it's more of an adventure than a mystery. (To be fair, the Dean Str......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on August 22, 2019

1923 [URL not allowed] booyah!! The blurb: "A girl, clad only in a night dress, is found walking in her sleep. Had she heard too much? Should she be "eliminated"? Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adv......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on April 27, 2020

A classic thriller. A TON of fun to read.......more

Goodreads review by Italo on October 06, 2020

This early non-series book has the typical Wentworth unbelievable coincidences, underground passages, secret doors, and the large country manor house, this time by the sea. We have a very interesting adventure in the late 1920s for an intrepid young woman, battling the era's growing dogmatic, author......more

Goodreads review by Louise on September 30, 2024

Jane Smith is persuaded to change places with her cousin Renata Molloy,who is believed to be in danger because of something she overheard (Renata and Jane just happen to be identical in appearance). So Jane finds herself in the midst of a sinister plot of some kind, and unsure of who are the villain......more

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