Poison in the Pen (Miss Silver Series #29)

Miss Silver comes to the aid of Scotland Yard when a village is turned upside-down by cruel anonymous letters: "A first-rate storyteller" (The Daily Telegraph).

It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman's husband may not have died of natural causes. It is a case of the kind of cruelty that...