num_pages: 168
description: Young Rena Austen newly wed is afraid she's made a terrible mistake. Her husband once a dashingly romantic figure of a wounded war hero has turned into a moody lay-about and they are sharing a gloomy house on the Upper East Side of New York with his unpleasant always-there family. When her husband reacts in a frighteningly angry way to Rena pulling a particular volume off the library shelf she has had enough and flees her home in fear for her life. Thankfully Henry Gamadge is on hand to solve the mystery of the book and the dead body that inevitably turns up. This 1951 novel is sadly Gamadge's last appearance but on the bright side he is as charming here as he was on his first outing.
language: English
title: The Book of the Crime: Henry Gamadge #16
publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press