Deadly Nightshade

About this book

Henry Gamadge, bibliophile and amateur detective, travels to Maine to help investigate a series of poisonings, which at first seem to be accidental. > New York bibliophile and sleuth Henry Gamadge is charming, genteel and dashing, and has earned himself quite a reputation in detection. So when his friend, State Detective Mitchell, asks for his help on a case involving several young children poisoned with deadly nightshade, some of them fatally, Gamadge is on the next train to Maine. At first it seems open and shut - a gypsy child traded the attractive berries for playthings - but when Gamadge digs deep, he learns that there's nothing childish about the deadly games being played out.

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About the author

Elizabeth Daly

15 October 1878 – 1967

Elizabeth Daly was born in New York City, the child of a justice on the Supreme Court of New York County and his wife. As a child, she loved games and puzzles, and she went on to become an avid reader of the crime fiction. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and then earned an M.A. degree from Columbia University. In 1940, at the age of sixty-two, Daly took up writing and published her first novel. She went on to become one of the most prolific crime writers of the 1940s, publishing an additional fifteen mystery novels. All of her books follow the adventures of the same main character, Henry Gamadge. She received an Edgar Award for her body of work. Agatha Christie, whom she greatly admired…