The Book of the Lion
Published on 12. November 2020
216 pages
978-1-63194-027-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 with some early promise but not much in the way of commercial success. But it's not so much the life and letters as the death of the author (murdered in Central Park) that interests Gamadge. Add in a dead witness and the odd behavior of the family, and Gamadge decides something criminal is afoot.
"Gamadge richly deserves his popularity with readers. Every move he makes and every sentence he speaks prove him to be a likable, intelligent gentleman." - New York Times
It should be a fairly routine job for Henry Gamadge: Examining the papers of a dead poet and playwright with some early promise but not much in the way of commercial success. But it's not so much the life and letters as the death of the author (murdered in Central Park) that interests Gamadge. Add in a dead witness and the odd behavior of the family, and Gamadge decides something criminal is afoot.
"Gamadge richly deserves his popularity with readers. Every move he makes and every sentence he speaks prove him to be a likable, intelligent gentleman." - New York Times
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By Elizabeth Daly
Content
- Intro
- CHAPTER ONE Life and Letters
- CHAPTER TWO Emissary
- CHAPTER THREE Background
- CHAPTER FOUR Down Payment
- CHAPTER FIVE The Other Place
- CHAPTER SIX Gamadge Wants to Know
- CHAPTER SEVEN Offensive
- CHAPTER EIGHT Research
- CHAPTER NINE A Ghost
- CHAPTER TEN The Book of the Lion
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Return
- CHAPTER TWELVE Half a Pint
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Night Life
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Graveyard Stretch
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Expert
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Appointments
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Informal
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Cocktail Party
- CHAPTER NINETEEN Accident
- CHAPTER TWENTY Money's Worth
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Autograph Letter Signed
- CHAPTER ONE Interior
- CHAPTER TWO Bargains
