3.5*
This entry in the Henry Gamadge series was interesting in that his wife Clara was the main character for the first section while Henry is away doing some secret war work. Despite the fact that I figured out the murderer fairly quickly, I couldn't figure out the motive and Daly did a good job of making me doubt my conclusion with several red herrings. ( )

Henry and Clara Gamadge have taken a cottage in the country area of the Berkshires for summer. Henry spends a good part of his time in the city on war work, so Clara is on her own.

A woman wearing an old sunbonnet starts appearing on the property. Rumour is she is Eve Hickson, who died just a year ago. Eva is the sister of Alvira, and further rumours are that Alvira may have poisoned her. When Alvira is injured in an accident in front of the cottage, and has to spend the night, she is killed and the suspect killer is the figure in the sunbonnet. How can a ghost be the killer? If it isn’t the ghost, then who is it and what is the reason?

Gamadge manages time off to spend time at the cottage investigating. There is a good number of possible suspects to sift through. One by one, Gamadge weeds them out. ( )

This entry in the Henry Gamadge series was interesting in that his wife Clara was the main character for the first section while Henry is away doing some secret war work. Despite the fact that I figured out the murderer fairly quickly, I couldn't figure out the motive and Daly did a good job of making me doubt my conclusion with several red herrings. ( )

Gamadge's wife at a vacation cottage sees what appears to be the ghost of a woman who died (possibly poisoned) earlier. Then a woman suspected of killing the first one does during what appears to be an appearance of the ghost --but Mrs. Gamadge insists she saw the whole thing and the "ghost" did not touch the victim. Local authorities are suspicious, but Gamadge trusts her and sets out to find ot who the "ghost" really was and how the murder happened. ( )

I was a little taken aback by the silly little some what foolish woman having to be protected and saved by the strong helpful smart man. ( )