Nothing Can Rescue Me
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When a manuscript written by a long-dead poet begins to reveal unsettling secrets, the genteel world of a New England country house is shattered by murder — and only the urbane bibliophile and amateur sleuth Henry Gamadge can untangle the deadly web of deceit. Nothing Can Rescue Me, the fifth installment in Elizabeth Daly's celebrated Henry Gamadge series, plunges its erudite hero into a closed-circle mystery steeped in literary intrigue, family tension, and creeping dread, as a weekend gathering of house guests becomes a hunting ground for a killer with a very particular motive. Daly's prose is precise and atmospheric, carrying the refined wit and psychological acuity that earned her the admiration of Agatha Christie herself, who reportedly named Daly her favourite American mystery writer. The Gamadge novels occupy a distinguished place in the Golden Age of detective fiction, pairing a protagonist of rare intellectual charm with plots of meticulous construction and genuine menace. Who among the circle of cultured, seemingly respectable guests could be ruthless enough to kill — and what dark secret does that ghostly manuscript truly contain?
Author: Elizabeth Daly
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When a manuscript written by a long-dead poet begins to reveal unsettling secrets, the genteel world of a New England country house is shattered by murder — and only the urbane bibliophile and amateur sleuth Henry Gamadge can untangle the deadly web of deceit. Nothing Can Rescue Me, the fifth installment in Elizabeth Daly's celebrated Henry Gamadge series, plunges its erudite hero into a closed-circle mystery steeped in literary intrigue, family tension, and creeping dread, as a weekend gathering of house guests becomes a hunting ground for a killer with a very particular motive. Daly's prose is precise and atmospheric, carrying the refined wit and psychological acuity that earned her the admiration of Agatha Christie herself, who reportedly named Daly her favourite American mystery writer. The Gamadge novels occupy a distinguished place in the Golden Age of detective fiction, pairing a protagonist of rare intellectual charm with plots of meticulous construction and genuine menace. Who among the circle of cultured, seemingly respectable guests could be ruthless enough to kill — and what dark secret does that ghostly manuscript truly contain?