Collection: Patricia Wentworth

Patricia Wentworth was a prolific British writer in the Golden Age of Mystery (~1920–40s). She wrote under a pen name but was born as Dora Amy Turnbull in British India in 1877 or 1878. (The date is debated.) She wrote over eighty books in her fifty-year career. Her last book, The Girl in the Cellar, was published the same year as her death in 1961. 

Her first book, A Marriage Under Terror (1910), a novel set during the French Revolution, won the Melrose prize. Though she wrote romance and historical fiction, she was most known for her adventure and mystery writing. The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith (1923) was the first of her of sixty-five mystery novels. Her longest series, the Miss Silver series, featuring a retired teacher turned private detective, includes thirty-two novels. Her books were popular not only in the UK but also the US.