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Madam, Will You Talk?

  • 1954 first published
  • 224 pages
  • ★ 4.8 (6 ratings)
  • 25 editions

Madam, Will You Talk? is a 1954 historical fiction and romantic suspense novel by Mary Stewart. Key subjects include France, widows, English and Travel.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 63 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 25 editions.

It runs to roughly 224 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Madam, Will You Talk?

Widow Charity Selborne had been greatly looking forward to her driving holiday through France with her old friend Louise - long, leisurely days under the hot sun, enjoying the beauty of the parched Provencal landscape. But when Charity arrived at a plush resort in the picturesque French resort town of Avignon, she had no way of knowing that she was to become the principal player in the last act of a strange and brutal tragedy. Most of it had already been played. There had been love--and lust--and revenge and fear and murder. Very soon her dreams turn into a nightmare, when by befriending a terrified boy and catching the attention of his enigmatic, possibly murderous father, Charity has inadvertently placed herself center stage. She becomes enmeshed in the schemes of a gang of murderers, one of them a man with whom she is rapidly falling in love... And now the killer, with blood enough on his hands, was waiting in the wings.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Historical
  • Suspense
  • France
  • Widows
  • English
  • Travel
  • Veuves
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Romance
  • Suspense romance
  • Thrillers

Quick answers

Who wrote Madam, Will You Talk??

Madam, Will You Talk? was written by Mary Stewart and first published in 1954.

What genre is Madam, Will You Talk??

It is usually shelved as Historical Fiction and Romantic Suspense.

How long is Madam, Will You Talk??

The median edition has 224 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Madam, Will You Talk??

Readers who like it often enjoy Wicked Widow, I Will Repay and Blue Dahlia.

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