{"title": "The Ivory Dagger", "key": "/works/OL3901371W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL709550A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [11294869, 4672861, 43841, 11974852, 3105986, 745078], "subjects": ["Silver, maud (fictitious character), fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Private investigators, fiction", "Mystery fiction", "Silver Maud (Fictitious character)--Fiction", "Women private investigators--England--Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths", "England, fiction", "London (england), fiction", "Maud Silver (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Women detectives", "Detective and mystery stories"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "When a broken engagement leads to murder, Miss Silver hunts for the killer.\r\n\r\nBill Waring went to America with a bright future ahead of him. In London he had a promising career and the love of a young beauty, Lila Dryden, and there were plans for marriage when he returned from overseas. But then a freak train accident puts their happiness on hold. Bill spends a month in the hospital, and when he finally makes it back to London, there is a still bigger shock awaiting him. Under pressure from a domineering aunt, Lila has become engaged to another.\r\n \r\nShe and her new fianc\u00e9\u2014middle-aged, charmless, and rich\u2014are in the country for the weekend. Bill follows, determined to win back Lila\u2019s heart. But when her new betrothed is stabbed to death, blame falls squarely on Bill, and only the brilliant, demure detective Maud Silver can clear his name.\r\n\r\nMiss Silver Mystery #19"}, "subject_places": ["England"], "subject_people": ["Miss Maud Silver"], "subject_times": ["Written in 1951"], "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T04:49:35.164635"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-12-15T06:58:35.895447"}}