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The Girl in the Cellar
- Narrated by: Diana Bishop
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
Miss Silver helps a woman with no memory reconstruct a terrible crime
She awakes in a dark place. A young woman with a shattered memory, she knows neither who she is nor how she came to be in this abandoned house. All she possesses is a faint sense that someone is lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Horrifyingly, she is correct. In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver’s shell. The amnesiac flees and finally has a stroke of luck: She meets Maud Silver.
A dowdy governess turned daring detective, Miss Silver sees immediately that something is wrong. She comforts the confused young woman, and coaxes out of her what little story she can tell. The memory of the body sets Miss Silver on a fantastic adventure - the last written by Patricia Wentworth, and one of the most thrilling of them all.
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- Melissa
- 21-09-14
Amnesia and Silver again
What did you like best about The Girl in the Cellar? What did you like least?
I always like books in which the main character is battling through amnesia and this story has plenty of that, however I did find the plot pulled together very tenuously right at the end and hung on too many chance encounters of critical characters.
What other book might you compare The Girl in the Cellar to, and why?
The case of William smith, because of the amnesia in both stories.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The pace of narration could be quicker when it isn't Miss Silver speaking.
Was The Girl in the Cellar worth the listening time?
Oh yes.
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- Carôle
- 22-10-20
Blah!
I Think that this must be an early Miss Silver book because it is really rather blah! She is only very incidentally in it in about four chapters! The other lead character (Frederick), is really rather pathetic! I don’t understand why? You get the initial impression of him that he is potentially some kind of spy or undercover agent, yet when he is having discussions with people he is really rather petulant! The lead female character, Ann, has lost her memory - it doesn’t make the book any more interesting, in fact it makes the story quite tedious.
Then there are the Scotland Yard people we know one of them from other Silver books, but they are also shadow characters and there appears to be very little point to their inclusion. They certainly do not take any action in the proceedings until the last two chapters. In all, it’s a very unsatisfactory, pedestrian, blind story and when you think about all of the coincidences and accidental meetings, it just seems a bit too unbelievable.
Add to that the very loose ending and you walk away thinking that this book is a bit blah! I do not recommend this book.
The narration is superb as always.
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- M.Vintage
- 29-10-20
I love Miss Silver but...
This is so dull! The main character has lost her memory which means that things are repeated endlessly and in great detail. The other main character is some sort of spy which apparently negates the need for a back story as everything is "hush hush".
The story is very thin and based on one unbelievable coincidence after another and Miss Silver barely makes an appearance. I can only think that Patricia Wentworth's editor was on holiday when this was published and nobody else dared to say it was way below parr.
Hurrah for Diana Bishop and her excellent reading but even she can't breathe life into this one!
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- D
- 25-02-18
more of a romance than a detective novel
and very old fashioned at that. Not one of the best Miss Silver novels, the plot motive was too far fetched, and a bit of a cheat really.
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- AllieBee
- 14-10-23
If you want a gripping, chilling story, read on…
This is the best Patricia Wentworth book I’ve listened to. Different to the others in terms of the usual detecting team playing second fiddle to the main character this time. A clever, can’t put the book down, kind of read. It’s got murder, betrayal, uncovering the truth, joining the dots, true love, and Miss Silver - what’s not to love?! The narrator is first class, her diction clear and well paced. The character definitions are so cleverly dealt with, and the sense of urgency, of a need to make sense of a bewildering situation, uppermost. With twists aplenty, and both joyful and upright, as well as downright dirty, rotten scoundrel characters in this mysterious case, you’ll be assured of an amazing adventure to find not only the truth, but also that forever kind of love.
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- AngelaM007
- 09-06-23
Interesting plot
I enjoyed the story and was kept guessing. But the plot was reminiscent of a Sherlock Holmes’s story. The unfolding of the tale was interesting.
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- TK
- 22-04-23
A bit on boring side
I have listened to almost all of Miss Silver stories. The narration is perfect as always. I like the plot itself, and the ending is quite unpredictable. However, the story is a bit boring as there is really just one main character. What I missed was much more presence of Miss Silver, which made the book quite less enjoyable for me than others.
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- Juliet
- 18-12-22
Worst of Wentworth
I love a Patricia Wentworth- for all their little flaws, and the tendency to repetition- sometime ad nauseam (‘Miss Silver coughed’ must appear on almost every other page) - the books are usually great light entertainment. The country house scenes, the charming and innocent young heroine, the predictable romance after an escape down a few dark corridors- pursued by an embittered old maid as like as not- it’s all good cosy crime.
But this one is truly awful- the main characters are not really characters, they are so 2
dimensional, and the plot - if you can call it a plot- is silly beyond belief. Not worth bothering with, even for a real Miss Silver fan.
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- Susan Lee
- 24-05-22
Not one of her best
This series,set firmly in the forties and fifties,with the attitudes and bias of the times, is enjoyable. However,they are not all of the same standard and this one is disjointed and has some terrible plot gaps. Miss Silver does less "sleuthing" and there is the obligatory romance each book contains. Inspector Abbott is almost static.
Despite this,the narrator does an excellent job of maintaining tension and narrative.
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- Bozz
- 26-03-17
Excellent
Certainly the best and most intriguing of the Miss Silver books but sadly the last
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