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 f...
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 nig...
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, al...
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 h...
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, merely ad...
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 weeken...
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...
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 ...
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 g...
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 a...
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 Gama...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 com...
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 ...
From Agatha Christie’s favorite American author, the first three mysteries starring gentleman sleuth and antiquarian book dealer Henry Gamadge.Unexpected Night: New Yorker Henry Gamadge is vacationing in coastal Maine when the police ther...