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| birth_name = Dora Amy Elles<br />
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| birth_place = [[Mussoorie]], [[Uttarakhand]], India<br />
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'''Dora Amy Elles''' (15 October 1877<ref name="auto"/> – 28 January 1961<ref>{{cite web|website=The Fiction Mags Index|accessdate=2 August 2016|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/patricia-wentworth/|title =Stories, Listed by Author: Patricia Wentworth}}</ref>), who wrote as '''Patricia Wentworth''', was a British crime fiction writer.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
She was born in [[Mussoorie]], [[Uttarakhand]], India (then the [[British Raj]]), and was educated first privately, then at [[Blackheath High School]] for Girls in [[London]].<ref name="auto"/> Her father was General [[Edmond Elles]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nyti.ms/2pXtfX5|title=SIR EDMOND ELLES, 85, BRITISH GENERAL, DIES; In 1918, at Age of 70, HeI Pierced Hindenburg Line in u i Tank -- Served in India.|date=January 7, 1934|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 1, 2018|page=30|language=en|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and her mother was Clare, Lady Elles, nee Rothney.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
She and her first husband, Lt. Col. George Frederick Horace Dillon, had one daughter. She also became stepmother to Dillon's three sons, two of whom died during World War I.<ref name="auto"/> After Dillon's death, in 1906, she settled in [[Camberley]], [[Surrey]]. In 1920, she married Lt. Col. George Oliver Turnbull.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.turnbullclan.com/tca_genealogy/TCA2017-o/g3/p2965.htm|title=Turnbull Clan Genealogy Collection - Person Page 2,965|website=www.library.turnbullclan.com|access-date=2019-01-02}}</ref> One of her stepsons who died in World War I had Wentworth as a middle name, after Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, and she adopted Wentworth as her pen name.<br />
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Dora Amy Turnbull died on 28 January 1961, aged 83. Her estate was valued at £24 561.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar#calendar|title=Find a will &#124; GOV.UK}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Wentworth wrote a series of 32 crime novels in the classic [[whodunit]] style, featuring [[Miss Silver|Miss Maud Silver]], a retired governess and teacher who becomes a professional private detective, in London, England. Miss Silver works closely with Scotland Yard, especially Inspector Frank Abbott, and is fond of quoting the poet [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]]. Miss Silver is sometimes compared to [[Jane Marple]], the elderly detective created by [[Agatha Christie]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=wentpa|title=Patricia Wentworth © Orlando Project|website=orlando.cambridge.org|access-date=2018-12-09}}</ref> <blockquote>"Miss Silver is well known in the better circles of society, and she finds entree to the troubled households of the upper classes with little difficulty. In most of Miss Silver's cases there is a young couple whose romance seems ill fated because of the murder to be solved, but in Miss Silver's competent hands the case is solved, the young couple are exonerated, and all is right in this very traditional world."<ref>{{cite book|author1=Swanson, Jean |author2=James, Dean |title=Killer Books: A Reader's Guide to Exploring the Popular World of Mystery and Suspense|publisher= Berkley|location= New York|date= 1998}}</ref> </blockquote>Wentworth also wrote 34 books outside that series. She won the [[Andrew Melrose|Melrose]] prize in 1910 for her first novel ''A Marriage Under The Terror'', set in the [[French Revolution]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Milne, James |title=Best Novel Competition Won by a Woman With Her First Book: Some Inferences Drawn|work=The New York Times|date= 9 April 1910 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/04/09/104929210.pdf}}</ref> Her novels were the topic of Jariel D. O'Neil's 1988 doctoral dissertation.<ref>{{cite book|author=O'Neil, Jariel D.|title=How providential!: a study of Patricia Wentworth's novels featuring Miss Maud Silver, spinster detective. |location=Tennessee|publisher=East Tennessee State University |date=1988}} (Dissertation.)</ref><br />
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== Works ==<br />
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=== Miss Silver series ===<br />
* ''Grey Mask'', 1928<br />
* ''The Case Is Closed'', 1937<br />
* ''Lonesome Road'', 1939<br />
* ''Danger Point'' (USA: ''In the Balance''), 1941<br />
* ''The Chinese Shawl'', 1943<br />
* ''Miss Silver Intervenes'' (USA: ''Miss Silver Deals with Death''), 1943<br />
* ''The Clock Strikes Twelve'', 1944<br />
* ''The Key'', 1944<br />
* ''The Traveller Returns'' (USA: ''She Came Back''), 1945<br />
* ''Pilgrim's Rest'' (or: ''Dark Threat''), 1946<br />
* ''Latter End'', 1947<br />
* ''Spotlight'' (USA: ''Wicked Uncle''), 1947<br />
* ''The Case of William Smith'', 1948<br />
* ''Eternity Ring'', 1948<br />
* ''The Catherine Wheel'', 1949<br />
* ''Miss Silver Comes to Stay'', 1949<br />
* ''The Brading Collection'' (or: ''Mr Brading's Collection''), 1950<br />
* ''The Ivory Dagger'', 1951<br />
* ''Through the Wall'', 1950<br />
* ''Anna, Where Are You?'' (or: ''Death At Deep End''), 1951<br />
* ''The Watersplash'', 1951<br />
* ''Ladies' Bane'', 1952<br />
* ''Out of the Past'', 1953<br />
* ''The Silent Pool'', 1954<br />
* ''Vanishing Point'', 1953<br />
* ''The Benevent Treasure'', 1953<br />
* ''The Gazebo'' (or: ''The Summerhouse''), 1955<br />
* ''The Listening Eye'', 1955<br />
* ''Poison in the Pen'', 1955<br />
* ''The Fingerprint'', 1956<br />
* ''The Alington Inheritance'', 1958<br />
* ''The Girl in the Cellar'', 1961<br />
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=== Frank Garrett series ===<br />
* ''Dead or Alive'', 1936<br />
* ''Rolling Stone'', 1940<br />
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=== Ernest Lamb series ===<br />
* ''The Blind Side'', 1939<br />
* ''Who Pays the Piper?'' (USA: ''Account Rendered''), 1940<br />
* ''Pursuit of a Parcel'', 1942<br />
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=== Benbow Smith ===<br />
* ''Fool Errant'', 1929<br />
* ''Danger Calling'', 1931<br />
* ''Walk with Care'', 1933<br />
* ''Down Under'', 1937<br />
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=== Standalone ===<br />
* ''A Marriage under the Terror'', 1910<br />
* ''A Child's Rhyme Book'', 1910<br />
* ''A Little More Than Kin'' (or: ''More Than Kin''), 1911<br />
* ''The Devil's Wind'', 1912<br />
* ''The Fire Within'', 1913<br />
* ''Simon Heriot'', 1914<br />
* ''Queen Anne Is Dead'', 1915<br />
* ''Earl or Chieftain?'', 1919<br />
* ''The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith'', 1923. Serialised, Baltimore Evening Sun, 1925<br />
* ''The Red Lacquer Case'', 1924<br />
* ''The Annam Jewel'', 1924<br />
* ''The Black Cabinet'', 1925<br />
* ''The Dower House Mystery'', 1925<br />
* ''The Amazing Chance'', 1926<br />
* ''Hue and Cry'', 1927<br />
* ''Anne Belinda'', 1927<br />
* ''Will-o'-the-Wisp'', 1928<br />
* ''Beggar's Choice'', 1930<br />
* ''The Coldstone'', 1930<br />
* ''Kingdom Lost'', 1931<br />
* ''Nothing Venture'', 1932<br />
* ''Red Danger'' (USA: ''Red Shadow''), 1932<br />
* ''Seven Green Stones'' (USA: ''Outrageous Fortune''), 1933<br />
* ''Devil-in-the-Dark'' (USA: ''Touch And Go''), 1934<br />
* ''Fear by Night'', 1934<br />
* ''Red Stefan'', 1935<br />
* ''Blindfold'', 1935<br />
* ''Hole and Corner'', 1936<br />
* ''Mr Zero'', 1938<br />
* ''Run!'', 1938<br />
* ''Unlawful Occasions'' (USA: ''Weekend with Death''), 1941<br />
* ''Beneath the Hunter's Moon'', 1945<br />
* ''Silence in Court'', 1947<br />
* ''The Pool of Dreams: Poems'', 1953<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{Library resources box|by=yes|onlinebooksby=yes|viaf=54155688}}<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Patricia Wentworth}}<br />
* {{Gutenberg author | id=Wentworth,+Patricia | name=Patricia Wentworth}}<br />
* {{FadedPage|id=Elles, Dora Amy|name=Dora Amy Elles|author=yes}}<br />
* {{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/patricia-wentworth/|website=Fantastic Fiction|title= Patricia Wentworth}} Books by Wentworth.<br />
* {{cite web|url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s1736.htm |title=Stories, Listed by Author: WENTWORTH, PATRICIA; pseudonym of Dora Amy Dillon Turnbull, (1878-1961) (chron.) |website=The FictionMags Index |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219135331/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s1736.htm |archive-date=2007-02-19 }} Three published magazine stories by Wentworth.<br />
*[https://earlybirdbooks.com/patricia-wentworth-ebooks Patricia Wentworth: An Introduction and Series Guide] at Early Bird Books<br />
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