Deadly Nightshade

I liked it, although the puzzle plot was complicated for me because of a large number of characters. I found it difficult to keep track of everyone. I liked the "down home" style of the dialogue, which fit the setting. I found that the story-telling was long-winded, which may reflect the time it was written. An OK read.

Arresting cover design, greenish fingers clicking a camera, and an intriguing endpaper map and strapline ' 'Into a quiet Maine countryside stole a strange murderer with a terrible weapon'...

Gamadge is called back to the small town in Maine where he had solved his first mystery, this time because several children have eaten berries of deadly nightshade and one has died --but she was a possible heiress.

3.5*

I never suspected the true solution to this second book in the Henry Gamage series!

I never suspected the true solution to this second book in the Henry Gamage series!