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From Agatha Christie's favorite American author-creepy correspondence from a Manhattan mansion puts an amateur sleuth on the trail of a killer. Take one grand house, stuff it with staff, and make it home to several generations. If they send their sons to Oxford and occasionally knock each other off, you've got a country-house murder mystery, the delight of classic English crime fiction. But if the boys are at Yale, odds are that you're reading its American counterpart, the New York mansion show more mystery-a genre largely invented by Elizabeth Daly. In Arrow Pointing Nowhere, Daly is back on the Upper East Side, where antiquarian book dealer Gamadge has been receiving missives suggesting that all is not right at the elegant Fenway mansion. But first he must find out who the messages are from ... show lessTags
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Lies, family secrets, deception, blackmail, inheritance and greed: all found along with murder, in the Fenway Mansion of New York’s elegant East Side.
The Fenways are an old family who shun any publicity. It seems that one member wishes to contact Henry Gamadge for help — via a balled up, used envelope, tossed onto the path the mailman walks to deliver their mail. After finding these messages five days in a row, the post office calls in the FBI. The FBI decides to give the case to Gamadge.
Gamadge’s appreciation of books is his ticket to be introduced to Blake Fenway, head of the Fenway family. The relationships between the residents of Fenway Manor is a tangle of blood, long term friendships and unusual personalities. There is also show more an atmosphere of sinister activity can be felt in the mansion. Someone wants Gamadge’s help, but who?
Gamadge finds himself with an added case. A unique book, written by Fenway’s grandfather, about the family history is missing a page — the one of the original family home, which no longer exists. Gamadge is asked to solve the mystery of its disappearance and possibly find the page.
A dog found dead, a family member dies, questions about who the residents really are are all threads that Gamadge has to unravels to find the answers. show less
The Fenways are an old family who shun any publicity. It seems that one member wishes to contact Henry Gamadge for help — via a balled up, used envelope, tossed onto the path the mailman walks to deliver their mail. After finding these messages five days in a row, the post office calls in the FBI. The FBI decides to give the case to Gamadge.
Gamadge’s appreciation of books is his ticket to be introduced to Blake Fenway, head of the Fenway family. The relationships between the residents of Fenway Manor is a tangle of blood, long term friendships and unusual personalities. There is also show more an atmosphere of sinister activity can be felt in the mansion. Someone wants Gamadge’s help, but who?
Gamadge finds himself with an added case. A unique book, written by Fenway’s grandfather, about the family history is missing a page — the one of the original family home, which no longer exists. Gamadge is asked to solve the mystery of its disappearance and possibly find the page.
A dog found dead, a family member dies, questions about who the residents really are are all threads that Gamadge has to unravels to find the answers. show less
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- Canonical title*
- Una dirección equivocada
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- Arrow Pointing Nowhere
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- Murder Listens In
- Original publication date
- 1944
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- Henry Gamadge; Fenway family
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- New York, New York, USA
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- later title : "Murder Listens In"
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