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Three titles in the Miss Silver series by Patricia Wentworth have dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

The Listening Eye, #28
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Mis...dp/B00AG8GWGC/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-listening-eye-1

Spoiler:

A deaf woman learns something she shouldn’t, and she asks Miss Silver for protection

Paulina Paine was buried under her house during the Blitz. She spent twenty-four hours trapped underneath the rubble, where the silence was absolute as the grave, and only after she escaped did she realize that the bomb that spared her life had taken her hearing. With difficulty, she learned to read lips—an invaluable skill that may soon get her killed.

She is at an art gallery when, quite by chance, she spies an interesting conversation across the room. Without meaning to, she eavesdrops, and learns of a shocking plan to commit a most fearsome robbery. She doesn’t know what to do until she learns that, after she left, the two men asked after her, and learned about her special talent. Now only the demure detective Maud Silver can halt the robbery and save Paulina’s life.

Vanishing Point, #25
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Poi...dp/B005GFBTBI/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/vanishing-point-8

Spoiler:

Miss Silver investigates a disappearance in a village near a top-secret government research facility

Jenny Maxwell is a bright young child. After an automobile accident leaves her barely able to walk, she retreats into a world of fantasy, devouring novel after novel of steamy romance. Now she has begun to write, and for a twelve-year-old she shows great promise. After she sends her work off to a publisher, the house sends a representative to meet the young woman and guide her.

But the stories she tells him are hardly fictional. Trapped in her room for hours at a time, Jenny hears all. She knows about the young woman who disappeared from town, and about the strange young man who works at the nearby military research center. What sounds like harmless gossip could actually be a grave threat to national security—one which only private investigator Miss Silver is capable of unearthing.

Poison in the Pen, #29
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Poison-Miss-S...dp/B00AG8HIZ6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poison-in-the-pen-1

Spoiler:

A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribe

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 is all too common in the countryside, and the governess-turned-detective listens with only polite interest.

Then the first death comes. Another target of the letter-writing campaign, tortured by the threats to reveal her darkest secrets, drowns herself in the manor-house pond. The Yard sends Abbott to unmask the sinister letter-writer, and he brings Miss Silver along as an undercover agent, masquerading as a tourist as she attempts to stop the next death before it happens.