Miss Silver is a fictional detective featured in 32 novels by British novelist Patricia Wentworth.
Wentworth wrote a series of 32 crime novels in the classic whodunit style, featuring 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 Tennyson.
[3] "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.
"[4] Others have argued that Miss Silver's seemingly "passive" knitting in fact gives her "narrative presence" and "a legitimate voice.