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Miss Silver confesses in this book to a preference for novels with happy endings. I share this preference, and I'm happy to say that so far the Miss Silver mysteries I've read so far have ended happily.With this book, I was a bit worried about the outcome, because all the inhabitants of Jimmy Latter's house are so very likable, I didn't want any of them to hang for murder.The setting is a country house called Latter End, home of the Latter family for generations. The victim is Lois Latter, wife of Jimmy, dead from the poison in her Turkish coffee. Jimmy is a sweet-natured man of fifty-one, beloved by everyone in the household and the village. His housekeeper Minnie is another middle-aged charmer with infinite patience and kindness for everyone.These are just two of the agreeable people who might have dropped poison into Lois's coffee. Lois was a very good-looking woman fond of having her own way. Her selfish schemes were upsetting the whole household.Patricia Wentworth always has a romance brewing in her plots, and here we watch the verbal sparring of an attractive young man and a frazzled young woman. The tensions of the investigation help bring them together. Anthony's conversation, in particular, tends to be witty.Also amusing is the relationship of Chief Inspector Lamb (gruff, old-school cop) and his assistant Sergeant Frank Abbott (young, elegant, college educated and fond of French phrases). When Miss Silver enters the investigation, at Jimmy's invitation, things get interesting. Lamb is not pleased to have the dowdy spinster butting in. Frank is thrilled, because he thinks Miss Silver is a marvel. She makes shrewd observations an deductions, as usual,while knitting lots of socks for small relatives. The solution is a fun twist.