Young Rena Austen, newly wed, is afraid she's made a terrible mistake. Her husband, once a dashingly romantic figure of a wounded war hero, has turned into a moody lay-about, and they are sharing a gloomy house on the Upper East Side of New York with his unpleasant, always-there family. When her hus
Henry Gamadge 08 The Book of the Dead
โ Scribed by Elizabeth Daly
- Book ID
- 110602259
- Publisher
- Felony & Mayhem Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Series
- Henry Gamadge Book 8
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781937384234
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it's not as though he had any friends to press the issue. He did, though, have one casual acquaintance, who happens to pick up Mr. Crenshaw's battered old edition of The Tempest...and happens to pass that book on to Henry Gamadge. Gamadge, of course, is not only an expert in solving pesky problems but also an expert in rare books, and his two sets of expertise combine to uncover the extraordinary puzzle of Mr. Crenshaw, which began in California and ended on the other side of the country, at a chilly New England rendezvous.
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