Henry Gamadge Books in Order

After several children are poisoned in a Maine community, Henry Gamadge suspects the deaths were no accident. As rumors spread and a state trooper dies, he has to find the human hand behind a crime that looks like nature.

Vacationing in coastal Maine, Henry Gamadge is drawn into the death of a young heir whose fatal fall looks too neat to be natural. A looming inheritance and a troupe of actors turn the case into a knot of performance and murder.

A young woman and a missing Byron volume vanish a century apart, then seem to return together to the Vauregard house unchanged. Henry Gamadge steps into a world of spiritualist talk, family nerves, and one of Daly's strangest puzzles.

Acquitted of killing her husband, Mrs. Gregson is still trapped by public suspicion and menacing messages from someone who may know the truth. Henry Gamadge takes the case quietly and finds a killer who can strike without seeming to enter at all.

Clara Gamadge rents a Berkshires cottage with a local ghost story attached, then witnesses a murder that seems to confirm it. Henry Gamadge has to separate fear and superstition from the very real malice at work nearby.

Called to an upstate mansion, Henry Gamadge finds threatening messages appearing in a terrible novel manuscript and a household primed for trouble. What starts as a spiteful prank turns into murder during a snowbound weekend.

Cryptic letters summon Henry Gamadge to the Fenway mansion, but the man who asked for help is dead before he arrives. A final clue, an arrow pointing nowhere, leads him into a claustrophobic household of heirs and secrets.

A battered copy of The Tempest reaches Henry Gamadge after the death of a lonely, reclusive man. The book opens a trail of hidden connections, old deceptions, and murder that stretches far beyond one quiet death.

At a country-house gathering, an abrasive guest is shot dead and nearly everyone present had reason to want her gone. With little physical evidence, Henry Gamadge has to read the room as carefully as the crime scene.

The Clayborn family opens a room sealed for decades, expecting heirlooms and finding a fresh corpse instead. Henry Gamadge must work out how the killer used an old mansion and long-buried family grudges to stage the crime.

A mysterious inscription appears on an old etching at Ashbury mansion, and the trick seems almost supernatural. Henry Gamadge follows the clue into a tangle of fraud, family strain, and murder.

Murder disturbs the sleepy village of Frazer's Mills, and Henry Gamadge arrives to help clear a friend under suspicion. Too many people were out walking that night, and their overlapping stories hide the truth.

A supposed lost Chaucer manuscript brings Henry Gamadge into a case where scholarship, money, and murder collide. To learn whether the find is genuine, he has to untangle forgery, blackmail, and dangerous ambition.

When a quiet woman vanishes from the tightly run Dunbar household, Henry Gamadge doubts the family's easy explanations. As he looks closer, a pattern of secrecy and convenient accidents points toward something much darker.

A crossword puzzle draws Henry Gamadge to a secluded Hudson River estate, where a widow claims she is being held prisoner after her husband's suspicious death. Old letters and family control hide a scandal someone will kill to protect.

A frightened young bride flees her wealthy new family and asks Henry Gamadge for help after she suspects someone tried to kill her. The key to her fear, and the motive for murder, lies in a book she was reading.