Elizabeth Daly's detective, Henry Gamadge (1930s-1950s), is a NY consulting expert on old books, manuscripts and autographs, and his criminal detection generally evolves from one of these. In "Evidence" (cover blurb): "The woman in the subonnet had appeared 3 times at sunset...on the ridge of the hill staring at the cottage...rented for the summer." " Miss Daly's sleuth will be well remembered as one of the most civilized detectives in fiction, investigating some of the mosty subtly conceived of criminal cases." - Anthony Boucher, New York Times. (Copyright 1943)

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