Deadly Nightshade

By Elizabeth Daly

Book Overview

Henry Gamadge, that Gentleman Sleuth extraordinaire, mostly sleuths in New York City, but this time he's sleuthing it up in Maine With talk of war all over the radio waves, Henry Gamadge is back in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B000CBC12M
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Berkley F759
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Stylish and absorbing Henry Gamadge mystery

This is an early Elizabeth Daly mystery, written before she learned to simplify her complex plots and focus on psychological interest, rather than strewing red herrings wildly about. The date is September, 1939. Against the backdrop of war's outbreak, an urbane New Yorker and amateur detective, Henry Gamadge, helps Maine police investigate the mystery of three -- possibly four -- children poisoned with deadly nightshade in a single day. As always, the initial mystery leads Gamadge into deeper and darker territory, as he uncovers long-ago family misdeeds beneath the surface of apparent social respectability.