Miss Julia Paxton has a mystery that only Gamadge could solve. the framed etching of Lady Audley had always hung in the hallway of the Ashbury mansion. Miss Paxton remembered it from her girlhood, and she was now a hale and hearty seventy-five. But never in al those years had she seen one word written on the portrait. In fact, none had been there - until after the visit last Sunday of Iris Vance, professional medium. Then the inscription, dated 1793, appeared. But how? Gamadge could tell the writing was genuine, he could even explain its presence without invoking the supernatural... but he couldn't stop Lady Audley's secret from leading to a most horrible murder.
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About the Author:
Elizabeth Daly is the author of sixteen novels in the Henry Gamadge series set in the New York of the 1940s. She was awarded an Edgar for her body of work, and is said to have been Agatha Christie’s favorite writer.
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- PublisherBantam Books
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 055323496X
- ISBN 13 9780553234961
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages165
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