title: Death in the Garden
author:  Elizabeth Ironside 
description: Superbly handled ... a masterly example of classic crime fiction" --Birmingham Post [UK]<br /><br />"One of those few mystery writers you unreservedly look forward to reading" --The Spectator [UK]
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  Death and the Woman  
    
  
  
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  # Death and the Woman
  
  
  ### Gertrude Atherton
  
  
  
  
  
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  Her husband was dying, and she was alone with him. Nothing could exceed the
  desolation of her surroundings. She and the man who was going from her were in
  the third- floor-back of a New York boarding-house. It was summer, and the
  other boarders were in the country; all the servants except the cook had been
  dismissed, and she, when not working, slept profoundly on the fifth floor. The
  landlady also was out of town on a brief holiday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The window was open to admit the thick unstirring air; no sound rose from the
  row of long narrow yards, nor from the tall deep houses annexed. The latter
  deadened the rattle of the streets. At intervals the distant elevated lumbered
  protestingly along, its grunts and 