The Black Cabinet, Patricia Wentworth
The Black Cabinet, Patricia Wentworth
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The Black Cabinet

Author: Patricia Wentworth

Narrator: Graham Scott

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2023

Synopsis

Hard-up dressmakers’ assistant Chloe Dane yearns for a new life. But when her mysterious relative Mitchell Dane dies, leaving her the ancestral home of her family, and the secret combination to the safe hidden behind the Chinese black lacquer cabinet in the drawing room, she finds herself locked in a struggle with unscrupulous opponents who will stop at nothing to get possession of the safe’s sinister contents …

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 Lady Clementina

Young and beautiful Chloe Dane works at a dressmaker, Miss Allardyce’s in the small town of Maxton. Here Chloe and her friend Rose Smith stitch the fine creations ordered by their clientele, and she and Rose also share a bedsit. But Rose is soon going to be married and moving to Assam, and Chloe is......more

Goodreads review by CLM

This is one of the older Patricia Wentworths that does not involve Miss Silver so it was not reprinted as frequently. Thank you to Dean Street Press for making this and many others available! Here is a link to my review: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by ValeReads

This one wasn't as good as the other two in the "Three Plucky Heroines" collection. It felt clumsier. From the beginning, when Chloe was scared of someone, and as I reader I picked up on nothing scary about him to the twists and turns at the end that didn't quite work for me, it just rather clunked.......more

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