Elizabeth Daly

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Elizabeth Daly


Born
in New York City, The United States
October 15, 1878

Died
September 02, 1967

Influences
Jane Austen


Elizabeth Daly (1878-1967) was born in New York City and educated at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She was a reader in English at Bryn Mawr and tutored in English and French. She was awarded an Edgar in 1960. Her series character is Henry Gamadge, an antiquarian book dealer.

Daly works in the footsteps of Jane Austen, offering an extraordinarily clear picture of society in her time through the interactions of a few characters. In that tradition, if you knew a person's family history, general type, and a few personal quirks, you could be said to know everything worth knowing about that person. Today the emphasis is on baring the darkest depths of psycho- and socio-pathology; contemporary readers raised on this style
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Average rating: 3.94 · 5,857 ratings · 590 reviews · 33 distinct worksSimilar authors
Unexpected Night (Henry Gam...

3.71 avg rating — 1,052 ratings — published 1940 — 33 editions
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The House without the Door ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 1942 — 23 editions
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Murders in Volume 2 (Henry ...

4.01 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 1941 — 16 editions
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Arrow Pointing Nowhere (Hen...

4.01 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1944 — 32 editions
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Evidence of Things Seen (He...

4.06 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1943 — 31 editions
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Deadly Nightshade (Henry Ga...

3.75 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 1940 — 25 editions
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Nothing Can Rescue Me (Henr...

3.90 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 1943 — 27 editions
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The Book of the Dead (Henry...

4.13 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1944 — 16 editions
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Night Walk (Henry Gamadge #12)

3.95 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1947 — 41 editions
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Somewhere in the House (Hen...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1946 — 15 editions
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Unexpected Night Deadly Nightshade Murders in Volume 2 The House without the Door Nothing Can Rescue Me Evidence of Things Seen (He... Arrow Pointing Nowhere
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“It takes experience to teach you what you can be satisfied with,”
Elizabeth Daly, Deadly Nightshade

“When police have theories, it's time to get a lawyer.”
Elizabeth Daly, The House without the Door

“I don’t have to remind you of the circumlocutions imposed on us by the pronoun.”
Elizabeth Daly, Evidence of Things Seen (Henry Gamadge Book 6)

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