Mike’s Reviews > The Miss Silver Mysteries Volume One: Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road > Status Update

Well, Grey Mask was disappointing. Multiple plot-essential coincidences, three Convenient Eavesdrops, villain both discovered and foiled without direct input from Miss Silver (though she was some use), and obvious cribbing from earlier writers. If The Case is Closed doesn't markedly improve on the first book, I'm out.

Margot may be the silliest young woman in English literature. Which is quite a record.

This is one of those books which convey the impression that London is a small village with a population of about two dozen people, based on how frequently the characters cross paths by pure random chance. And we've already had two Convenient Eavesdrops. Otherwise, it's well written, but those are two of my least favorite things.