Started: 1/17/07
Finished: 1/19/07
Year: 1929 (this edition 1986)
Pages: 251
Genre: Mystery
Grade: C
Reason for reading: grabbed it off the shelf
Blurb (from back cover): "It was Charles Moray's peculiar misfortune to have overheard some sinister words spoken in the dark. Something about a murder at sea, inheritance, missing documents. And he had seen a tall man in a grey mask disappear quickly into the night.
"A few days later London was stunned by some shocking news. Lord Standing was dead, washed overboard from the deck of his yacht. Then came a series of other deaths, all somehow related to the Standing case. It was clear to Charles that something had to be done. But involving the police was out of the question, since one of the voices he had heard in the dark was unmistakably that of Margaret Langton-the woman he loved!
"The case was tailor-made for the veteran sleuth Miss Silver..."
Opinion: Not one of the best mysteries that I've read. A certain character was beyond annoying-an 18-year old who acted like she was 12. Other than that it was a good read, the mystery itself was good.
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