Unexpected Night
1964FictionBook collectorsHenry Gamadge (Fictitious character)Large type booksGamadge, henry (fictitious character), fiction
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It was to have been just a few quiet days of golf for Henry Gamadge, the charming and genteel consultant on old books, autographs and inks—whose fame in detection surpassed his reputation as a bibliophile. But the script suddenly changed when Amberley Crowden's body was found at the base of a cliff. Only Gamadge doubted that it was an accidental death. Why the dramatic staging? And what role did Amberley's cousin and the troupe of actors at the Cove play in the ensuing strange twists and turns of events? Gamadge deduced that a new script was being written, one of blatant murder and backstage mayhem, and his role was to resolve it all before the final curtain fell on yet another member of this unlikely cast of characters.
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FictionBook collectorsHenry Gamadge (Fictitious character)Large type booksGamadge, henry (fictitious character), fictionNew york (n.y.), fiction
First published 1964Setting
New York (N.Y.)
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…
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