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Nothing Can Rescue Me (Henry Gamadge #5)

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Title:Nothing Can Rescue Me (Henry Gamadge #5)
Author:
Daly, Elizabeth   
(11 of 14 for author by title)
Somewhere in the House (Henry Gamadge #10)
Night Walk (Henry Gamadge #12)
Published:   1943
Publisher:Farrar & Rinehart
Tags:fiction, mystery
Description:

Strange things were going on at Underhill, the Hutter family's country estate. One of the weekend guests blamed it on malevolent spirits, accidently unleashed by Florence Hutter Mason's fiddling with a Ouija board. Gamadge agreed the ominous messages typed into the manuscript copy of Florrie's novel were evil, but he knew they weren't put there by a spectral hand. And he feared that soemwhere between the formal gardens outside and the servants' quarters atop the stately mansion, murder was about to happen...because while ghosts don't kill, humans driven by passion, spite, or greed all too often do. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Daly, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Daly (1878-1967) was born in New York City and educated at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She was a reader in English at Bryn Mawr and tutored in English and French. She was awarded an Edgar in 1960. Her series character is Henry Gamadge, an antiquarian book dealer.

Daly works in the footsteps of Jane Austen, offering an extraordinarily clear picture of society in her time through the interactions of a few characters. In that tradition, if you knew a person's family history, general type, and a few personal quirks, you could be said to know everything worth knowing about that person. Today the emphasis is on baring the darkest depths of psycho- and socio-pathology; contemporary readers raised on this style may find Ms. Daly both elitist and somewhat facile. But fans of classic movies and whodunits know that a focus on polished surfaces brings with it the possibility of hidden secrets and things unsaid; for those who disdain the obvious confessional style of today, the Gamadge books have much to recommend them.

Elizabeth Daly now seems sadly forgotten by many which is a shame as all her books are superbly crafted and plotted, indeed she counted none other than Agatha Christie as one of her fans. She published sixteen books all of which featured her main series character Henry Gamadge. He is a bibliophile and expert on rare books and manuscripts which makes her books particularly appealing to fans of the bibliomystery. There was some disparity between UK and US releases some being published out of sequence, the bibliography shown follows the US editions which are the true firsts. Murder Listens In and Shroud for a Lady are re-titled reissues of earlier books.

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