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  • THE BOOK OF THE CRIME
    ELIZABETH DALY
    A strange tome and a terrified wife draw a 1950s antiquarian book dealer into a murder case in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author. Young Rena Austen, newly wed, is afraid she's made a terrible mistake. Her husband, once a dashingly romantic figure of a wounded war hero, has become a moody lay-about, and they are sharing a gloomy house on the Upper East S...

    $119.00

  • DEATH AND LETTERS
    ELIZABETH DALY
    A crossword puzzle leads a 1950s antiquarian book dealer to a puzzling family in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite author. Amateur detective Henry Gamadge is summoned to a secluded estate by way of a crossword puzzle, the only means of communication for a widow being held captive by her relatives. They claim she's lost her mind; she thinks they have shut her away to ke...

    $119.00

  • AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW
    ELIZABETH DALY
    In this mystery novella by Agatha Christie's favorite American author, a 1940s antiquarian book dealer searches for a missing Manhattanite. Alice Dunbar was a very proper Upper East Side woman with a very boring life. There is, in fact, absolutely no reason why she should go missing, and yet that's exactly what she does. One hot summer day, shortly after an elderly aunt's funer...

    $149.00

  • NIGHT WALK
    ELIZABETH DALY
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—a 1940s amateur sleuth must save a friend accused of murder in a small New York town. Frazer's Mills, in Westchester County, New York, is a small, isolated village, where everyone knows everyone else and things haven't changed much (and the mills have been closed for quite some time). When murder suddenly intrudes upon this sedate...

    $119.00

  • THE BOOK OF THE LION
    ELIZABETH DALY
    A 1940s antiquarian book dealer gets caught up in a Manhattan writer's murder in this mystery from Agatha Christie's favorite American author. It should be a fairly routine job for Henry Gamadge: Examining the papers of a dead poet and playwright with some early promise but not much in the way of commercial success. But it's not so much the life and letters as the death of the ...

    $164.00

  • UNEXPECTED NIGHT
    ELIZABETH DALY
    An antiquarian book dealer spends his vacation investigating murder in this series opener from Agatha Christie's favorite American author. New York handwriting and rare book expert—and a gentleman sleuth—Henry Gamadge is vacationing in coastal Maine when the police there need his help. It's a strange case involving a seemingly natural death, a large inheritance, a mysterious ni...

    $119.00

  • DEADLY NIGHTSHADE
    ELIZABETH DALY
    An amateur sleuth aids a Maine town plagued by poison in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author. With talk of war all over the radio waves, antiquarian book dealer Henry Gamadge is back in Maine, this time by invitation of his friend Detective Mitchell. Mitchell has a real puzzler on his hands: three different children have been poisoned with deadly nightsha...

    $119.00

  • THE WRONG WAY DOWN
    ELIZABETH DALY
    An amateur sleuth with an eye for fakes is on the lookout for a murderer in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author. What begins as a courtesy call on his wife's friend, Miss Julia Paxton, turns into another case for Henry Gamadge, antiquarian book dealer, handwriting expert, and amateur detective. Miss Paxton presents Gamadge with a mystery: a framed etching...

    $119.00

  • THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR
    ELIZABETH DALY
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—an amateur sleuth helps a Manhattan widow who fears her husband's killer is stalking her. Acquitted of murdering her wealthy husband, Mrs. Vina 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. Gre...

    $164.00

  • ANY SHAPE OR FORM
    ELIZABETH DALY
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—a bookish sleuth attempts to solve the murder of a spiritual eccentric at a wealthy estate. Just about any of the guests at Johnny Redfield's party seems to have a good reason to have killed the guest of honor, Johnny's Californian aunt who, with her astral name and vague pretensions of mysticism, does not exactly blend in the ele...

    $119.00

  • MURDERS IN VOLUME 2
    ELIZABETH DALY
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—an amateur detective examines the mysterious reappearance of a woman who vanished 100 years ago. One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared from the wealthy Vauregard household, along with the second volume in a set of the collected works of Byron. Improbably enough, both guest and book seem to have reappeared, w...

    $200.00

  • THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
    ELIZABETH DALY
    A copy of Shakespeare's The Tempest pulls a bookseller into a murder case in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author. The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it's not as though he had any friends to press the issue. He did, though, have one casual acquaintance, who happens to pick up Mr. Crenshaw's battered old...

    $119.00

  • ARROW POINTING NOWHERE
    ELIZABETH DALY
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—creepy correspondence from a Manhattan mansion puts an amateur sleuth on the trail of a killer. Take one grand house, stuff it with staff, and make it home to several generations. If they send their sons to Oxford and occasionally knock each other off, you've got a country-house murder mystery, the delight of classic English crime...

    $119.00

  • NOTHING CAN RESCUE ME
    ELIZABETH DALY
    In this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author, an amateur sleuth deals with sinister spirits and murder at a New York country mansion. It's mid-1943, and Henry Gamadge is up to his elbows in war work and longing for a quiet weekend. But when a half-forgotten classmate requests assistance, Gamadge is unable to refuse the tug of an old school tie. Sylvanus Hutter ...

    $119.00

  • EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN
    ELIZABETH DALY
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—an amateur sleuth rescues his wife when her vacation home includes a ghost and murder. In the sticky summer of 1943, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet who died just one year ago in the cottage Clara is now renting, mere...

    $149.00

  • SOMEWHERE IN THE HOUSE
    ELIZABETH DALY
    In this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author, an amateur sleuth discovers a locked room holds more than a dead woman's fortune. The Clayborn clan has been waiting 25 years to divvy up Grandmama's fortune, locked up by her will and in a small room in the Clayborn mansion. Tomorrow the Room is to be opened, and the Clayborns can't wait to get their fingers on the...

    $119.00