The Clock Strikes Twelve
A Golden Age Country-House Mystery of New Year's Eve Murder, Buried Secrets, and Miss Silver's Quiet DetectionBy Patricia Wentworth
Length9h 3m
About this audiobook
Patricia Wentworth's *The Clock Strikes Twelve* is a classic Golden Age mystery featuring Miss Maud Silver, the deceptively mild former governess whose powers of observation repeatedly expose the secrets concealed beneath respectable domestic life. Set within the enclosed world of an English household and its uneasy circle of relatives, dependants, and visitors, the novel turns inheritance, memory, social obligation, and concealed resentment into sources of suspense. Its title evokes both the ominous threshold of midnight and the measured revelation of evidence, while Wentworth's orderly plotting, lucid prose, and finely controlled atmosphere give the investigation a satisfying sense of inevitability. The book belongs to the country-house and domestic-detection traditions, but its emphasis on psychology and women's social intelligence distinguishes it from more purely procedural examples of the genre. Wentworth was the pen name of Dora Amy Dillon, an Australian-born British novelist who became one of the most prolific and enduring writers of twentieth-century detective fiction. Writing during the flourishing years of the Golden Age, she developed Miss Silver into a distinctive investigator: professionally trained, outwardly conventional, and quietly independent. Wentworth's experience of domestic and social worlds, together with her interest in the pressures governing family life, informs the novel's attentive treatment of character, class, and gender. This book will reward readers who value ingenious but fair-minded mysteries, restrained suspense, and richly observed relationships. It is especially recommended to admirers of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and classic British detective fiction who welcome an investigator whose authority rests on patience, empathy, and intelligence rather than spectacle. *The Clock Strikes Twelve* offers both an absorbing puzzle and a perceptive study of how apparently secure communities preserve—and eventually reveal—their secrets.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Coroner's Pidgin (Annotated)
25CHAPTER XXIV
2CHAPTER I
26CHAPTER XXV
3CHAPTER II
27CHAPTER XXVI
4CHAPTER III
28CHAPTER XXVII
5CHAPTER IV
29CHAPTER XXVIII
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6CHAPTER V
30CHAPTER XXIX
7CHAPTER VI
31CHAPTER XXX
8CHAPTER VII
32CHAPTER XXXI
9CHAPTER VIII
33CHAPTER XXXII
10CHAPTER IX
34CHAPTER XXXIII
11CHAPTER X
35CHAPTER XXXIV
12CHAPTER XI
36CHAPTER XXXV
13CHAPTER XII
37CHAPTER XXXVI
14CHAPTER XIII
38CHAPTER XXXVII
15CHAPTER XIV
39CHAPTER XXXVIII
16CHAPTER XV
40CHAPTER XXXIX
17CHAPTER XVI
41CHAPTER XL
18CHAPTER XVII
42CHAPTER XLI
19CHAPTER XVIII
43CHAPTER XLII
20CHAPTER XIX
44CHAPTER XLIII
21CHAPTER XX
45CHAPTER XLIV
22CHAPTER XXI
46CHAPTER XLV
23CHAPTER XXII
47CHAPTER XLVI
24CHAPTER XXIII
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