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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 6,481 ratings · 656 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors
Unexpected Night
3.71 avg rating — 1,221 ratings — published 1940
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The House without the Door ...
3.99 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1942
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Murders in Volume 2 (Henry ...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 1941 — 17 editions
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Evidence of Things Seen (He...
4.07 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 1943 — 32 editions
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Arrow Pointing Nowhere (Hen...
4.02 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 1944 — 3 editions
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Deadly Nightshade (Henry Ga...
3.73 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 1940 — 26 editions
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Nothing Can Rescue Me (Henr...
3.88 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1943 — 26 editions
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The Book of the Dead (Henry...
4.14 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1944 — 15 editions
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Somewhere in the House (Hen...
3.97 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 1946 — 15 editions
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The Wrong Way Down (Henry G...
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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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“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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“It takes experience to teach you what you can be satisfied with,”
― Elizabeth Daly, Deadly Nightshade
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“When police have theories, it's time to get a lawyer.”
― Elizabeth Daly, The House without the Door
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