num_pages: 267
description: James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea. The arrival of Alan Field a devastatingly handsome though shady figure from Carmona's past destroys the holiday atmosphere in the ugly old house and replaces it with mounting tension culminating in murder. Fortunately for the Hardwicks and their guests Miss Silver is present to unravel the secrets from the past -- secrets the killer will stop at nothing to keep hidden.
language: English
title: Out of the Past
publisher: Harper Perennial