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
mystery'a genre largely invented by Elizabeth Daly. In Arrow Pointing
Nowhere Daly is back on the Upper East Side, where Gamadge has been
receiving missives suggesting that all is not right at the elegant
Fenway mansion.