The House Without the Door (A Henry Gamadge Mystery)

By Elizabeth Daly

Book Overview

Mrs. Vina Gregson should be sitting pretty. Acquitted of murdering her husband, she has inherited his money, and can afford to dress in latest styles. Unfortunately, her fashionable ensembles go largely unseen, as the Widow Gregson remains essentially a prisoner, trapped in her elegant New York apartment with occasional furtive forays to her Connecticut estate. A jury may have found her innocent, but Mrs. Gregson remains a murderess in the eyes of the public and of the tabloid journalists who hound her every step. Worse, she has recently begun receiving increasingly menacing letters - letters written, she is certain, by the person who killed her husband. Taking the matter to the police would only heighten her notoriety, so she calls on Henry Gamadge, the gentleman-sleuth who earlier featured in Murders in Volume 2, and who is known both for his discretion and for his ability to solve problems that baffle the police.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553246100
• ISBN13: 9780553246100
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

They don't write them like this anymore.

A true who-done-it without all the sex and violence you find so much these days.

Meet Henry Gamadge

Elizabeth Daly's Henry Gamadge is a character worth knowing. He is not a detective, but investigates only to help a friend, or a friend's friend, and the police, at first resnting this interference of a civilian, come to depend on his assistance. The development of plot, and the dialog of the characters, grip the reader's interest.