The Clock Strikes Twelve (Miss Silver Series) - Softcover

You can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver. * Observer * . . . some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery * Alfred Hitchcock Magazine * Miss Silver is marvellous * Daily Mail * Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller * Daily Telegraph * Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot * Manchester Evening News *

New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing from tradition, James Paradine makes a speech that changes the course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to confess and return the papers. A few minutes after twelve James Paradine is dead. It is left to Miss Silver to disentangle the threads that bind the Paradine family in a strange web of dislike, hatred and fear.