Deadly Nightshade

Description:

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.

subjects: Golden Age mystery,  Henry Gamadge (Fictitious character),  Book collectors,  Fiction,  Murder,  Investigation,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Gamadge, henry (fictitious character), fiction,  Crime, fiction

Places: New York (N.Y.),  Maine