num_pages: 342
description: His first wife died suddenlyand his wealthy new bride may be about to meet a similar fate . . . Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back to London when with a violent shudder of the train a young woman is thrust into her compartment. Shes beautiful well dressed newly married and wealthya lethal combination.In a state of shock Lisle Jerningham explains that she fled her home in a hurry after overhearing a sinister conversation. Her new husbands first wife died in an apparent accident and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now hes broke againand attempting to engineer a second convenient mishap. Miss Silver is unsure whether the drama is real or a figment of Lisles imaginationbut if this frightened young lady is a target for murder the killer will have to deal with the governess-turned-sleuth first. Starring a mature sleuth who has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot In the Balance is a classic British mystery (Manchester Evening News).
language: English
title: In the Balance
publisher: Open Road Media