Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver unravels a tangled web of marriage, mystery, and murder in the English countryside no one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married.
Her husband, Geoffrey, swept her off her feet and out of London to a faraway town called Bleake, consumed with the dream of owning a ramshackle medieval estate known as "Ladies\' Bane." Why he\'s so determined to live there no one knows, but Allegra postpones visits from family again and again, and then stops writing letters.
Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver unravels a tangled web of marriage, mystery, and murder in the English countryside no one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married