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Next of Kin

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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A young heiress turns amateur sleuth when a politician—the brother of the man she loves—is murdered in this Golden age mystery from an Edgar Award winner. A former senator up for a prestigious cabinet appointment, Stuart Channing had everything to live for—power, influence, a beautiful wife. So when he’s found dead behind the locked door of his study, everyone, from the public to the police, is perplexed. With a party in full swing just hours earlier, there is no end of suspects. Late to the party, Mady Smith arrives on the arm of Hill “Chan” Channing, the senator’s brother with whom she’s been secretly in love. Mady is stunned by the death of the senator, a man she admired and hoped to work for. Instead, she assigns herself the job of finding the murderer—a task that becomes even more treacherous when the grieving widow makes a play for Chan. Now if only Mady could get to the truth, before the killer gets her. Praise for Mignon Eberhart “Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction.” —John Jakes, author of the North and South Trilogy “One of America’s favorite writers.” —Mary Higgins Clark

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1504097165

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9781504097161

Death in the Fog

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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Death in the Fog

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

Driving on a foggy and sleet-filled night to her Aunt Mina's desolate mansion, Katie Warren becomes the chief suspect in a murder and must find the real killer in order to clear her name

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803267304

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9780803267305

While the Patient Slept

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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While the Patient Slept

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

On a blustery February day Sarah Keate arrives at a gloomy mansion to nurse old Adolph Federie, bedbound after a stroke. Meeting the patient sets off an alarm inside her, but fleeing the house is impossible. The redoubtable red-haired nurse is stuck there with a strange coterie and a black cat named Genevieve. Originally published in 1930, a year after her debut mystery novel The Patient in Room 18, While the Patient Slept strengthened Mignon G. Eberhart's hold on fame.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803267266

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9780803267268

Another Woman's House

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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Another Woman's House

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

Alice Thorne is in prison for murder - and Myra had fallen in love with Alice's husband, Richard. But just as Richard was about to divorce Alice, the unthinkable happened - Alice had come back...for good.

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1560545577

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9781560545576

Two Little Rich Girls

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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Two Little Rich Girls

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

In temperament and character Emmy Van Seidem fits nicely into her world of inherited wealth, but her sister Diana, brother-in-law Doug, and her own constant companion Gil, do not. When Gil is inexplicably murdered in Diana's town house, all the evidence points to Diana as the chief suspect. But even after Diana is tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, there are many who believe in her innocence and continue to fight for her release -- at their own peril.

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1560545585

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9781560545583

Jury of One

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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Jury of One

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

Marriage to her hometown prince turns terrifying when the bride realizes he’s a murderer—and she’s his next victim in this classic romantic thriller. Maggy Warren’s return to the small town of Milrock is the stuff of fairy tales. After growing up an only child of a widowed mother in the shadow of the wealthy, glittering Beall family, Maggy is to be married to Kirk Beall, eldest son and heir to the family business empire. Days before the wedding, her childhood friend and protector Josh Mason returns from military service, warning Maggy to call off the wedding. Is it out of jealousy—or does he detect something sinister in Kirk? Soon enough, a man is dead after what appears to be an accident. But as the body count rises, Maggy is certain her dream come true is really a nightmare.

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Open Road Media

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1504097092

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9781504097093

Dead Yesterday

And Other Stories

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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Dead Yesterday

And Other Stories

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

Mignon Good Eberhart (1899-1996) was for much of the twentieth century one of the best known mystery writers in America. She was both talented and prolific, publishing 59 novels and many short stories in her more than 60-year writing career. Dead Yesterday contains the best of her previously uncollected stories, with tales about the following sleuths:Nurse Sarah Keate, a middle-aged no nonsense nurse who appeared not only in Eberhart?s first seven novels, but she also made her rounds as a short-story character in 1930s periodicals. Her acerbic wit and matter-of-fact demeanor defy the dark forces of murder that she encounters in and out of hospital settings.Susan Dare, a saucy young mystery writer, is aided by her journalist friend Jim Byrne. She was exclusively a short story character.James Wickwire, is a rarity in the Eberhart canon ? a male protagonist. An elderly senior vice-president of a bank, Wuickwire is a bachelor whose reputation is incredibly appealing to damsels in distress and others who seek his reluctant assistance in solving crimes.Melvina Standish ? Mel Standish, like Sarah Keate is a nurse. Standish, however, had her solo appearance before Keate. In the earliest (1926) Eberhart work, Mel helps solve a murder at her Chicago Apartment house.

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1932009663

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9781932009668

Run Scared

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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Run Scared

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

In this “stunning [and] enthralling” thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author, a politician’s wife covers up her hit and run and gets blackmailed (Miami News). On a country road on a dark, rainy night, Martha Bascom’s life is changed forever. As the young wife of Lem Bascom, the front-runner in a gubernatorial race and a presidential hopeful, Martha has everything to lose when she accidentally hits a man with her car. Convinced by a political ally to cover up the incident, Martha reluctantly agrees. Then her nightmare begins. Someone knows the truth and is determined to torture her with it. Soon she falls prey to a terrifying blackmail scheme, a secret she can share with no one. Especially her husband. She might be protecting him, but will Martha be able to save herself? Praise for Mignon Eberhart “Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction.” —John Jakes, author of the North and South Trilogy “One of America’s favorite writers.” —Mary Higgins Clark

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1504097157

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9781504097154

Woman on the Roof

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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Woman on the Roof

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

When her husband falls from the terrace of their NYC penthouse, a young widow is terrorized by his killer in this thriller from an Edgar Award winner. As the much younger wife of a wealthy man, Sue Desart has much to be grateful for. After her first fiancé was killed in Vietnam, she didn’t expect a great romance, only companionship and security, which Marcus Desart graciously offered. But moving into his eerie Manhattan penthouse, Sue realizes she doesn’t know her husband as well as she thought. And the specter of his first wife’s death—a woman brutally murdered on the penthouse terrace by an unknown perpetrator—begins to haunt her. Until the night Marcus falls from the terrace himself, landing a few feet from where his first wife’s body was found. Bereft and terrified, Sue must face life alone in the penthouse, with a killer on the loose, intent on making her his next victim. Praise for Mignon Eberhart “Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction.” —John Jakes, author of the North and South Trilogy “One of America’s favorite writers.” —Mary Higgins Clark

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1504097173

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9781504097178

The Mystery of Hunting's End

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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The Mystery of Hunting's End

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

The Sand Hills of Nebraska, where Mignon Eberhart lived as a newlywed, inspired the setting of this 1930 chiller. In the middle of the bleak landscape sits the lodge called Hunting's End--where a young socialite (a.k.a. Nurse Keate) is determined to discover who killed her father five years earlier. Eberhart died in 1996 at age 97, after a long career as an award-winning mystery writer.

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0884117642

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9780884117643

The House on the Roof

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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The House on the Roof

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

Deborah, under suspicion, returns alone to the scene where a gaudy diva was murdered—to the house on the rooftop of a Chicago apartment building. “She reached the roof and emerged at the opening of the parapet wall. Flat, black, and dirty. Chimneys, incinerators, ventilators. The house itself, dark and dingy and passive. Nothing moved. . . . No sound except, away below, the murmur of a passing automobile. . . . Quite suddenly she realized that if she had removed the threat of the police she had also removed their protection.” In a few moments she will face sheer dizzying horror.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803267347

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9780803267343

Enemy in the House

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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Enemy in the House

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

A tale of murder and suspense in Revolutionary-era South Carolina, from an Edgar Award–winning author: “One of America’s favorite writers” (Mary Higgins Clark). Amity Mallam fears that her family’s loyalty to King George III may result in their land being seized by George Washington’s army—and in a last-ditch effort to save it, she marries her cousin Simon, a rebel. After the priest who officiated the ceremony is murdered—along with a lawyer who attended—she sets off to Jamaica to find her father, who had left her behind to run the plantation. But even more danger and turmoil awaits in the Caribbean, and Amity must untangle the truth and stave off the armies of two nations to protect them all. “Intriguing.” —Houston Chronicle “One of the most thorough and ingenious plotters in the trade.” —The New Yorker

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145325725X

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9781453257258

Speak No Evil

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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Speak No Evil

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

“A well told and interesting mystery . . . excellent intricacy and with real subtlety of character drawing. . . . One of the best of [Eberhart’s] tales.” —The New York Times Elizabeth Dakin has reason to fear her older, wealthy husband. Throughout their two-year marriage—a union made in haste after the death of her father—she has been the victim of his alcoholic bouts of rage. She never imagined she had to be afraid for him. But when she stumbles upon his dead body, suddenly the life they lived in a Jamaican paradise is revealed for the sham that it is. Or so she thinks. For suddenly Elizabeth finds herself the lead suspect in his murder . . .

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1504097106

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9781504097109

Next of Kin

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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Next of Kin

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

Mady Smith, a wealthy young woman who is disinterested in elitist social functions, finds herself in the midst of a murder after she goes to work for ex-Senator Stuart Channing

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Random House Incorporated

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0394524330

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9780394524337

From This Dark Stairway

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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From This Dark Stairway

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

This classic mystery “could rob at least one night’s sleep. . . . The scene is laid in a hospital and the things that happen there are terrifying in the extreme” (The New York Times). Nothing gets past the vigilance of Sarah Keate, head nurse on the third floor of Melady Memorial Hospital, a wing devoted to the wealthiest class of patients. Except one hot July night, she is startled to discover a patient has gone missing. And not just any patient, Peter Melady, grandson of the hospital’s founder and head of the Melady Drug Company. During her frantic search, Nurse Keate stumbles upon the bloodied corpse of Dr. Harrigan, who was to perform the missing patient’s surgery that very night. It’s a mystery as baffling as it is terrifying, made worse by the bumbling police officer on the case. Good thing the keen mind of Nurse Keate is gathering details, from the mad whispers heard moments before the murder to the antique Chinese snuff bottle Peter Melady demanded she retrieve before his disappearance. Nothing escapes Sarah’s shrewd notice, not even the cold-blooded calculations of a killer.

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1504097122

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9781504097123

Five Passengers From Lisbon

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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Five Passengers From Lisbon

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

“The master touch for murders with superior entertainment value,” this classic locked room mystery takes place aboard a ship at sea (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Shipwrecked while bound for Buenos Aires, Marcia Colfax believes she and her beloved fiancé might not live to see their long-awaited wedding day. But a miracle occurs after being lowered down in a lifeboat into the dark, swirling sea with the captain, two seamen, and their fellow passengers from Lisbon. A rescue ship is spotted in the darkness. When Marcia awakes next, she’s in a bed aboard an American hospital ship, the SS Magnolia. Marcia comes to learn that everyone was rescued, except for the captain, who was found dead in the lifeboat with a knife plunged into his back. The revelation sends shockwaves through Marcia. Surely it must have been one of the seamen, bearing a grudge against their captain? Or could it have been one of the five passengers from Lisbon? The only thing certain is that the murderer is on board the boat, a fact that becomes gruesomely apparent when another corpse is discovered. Now Marcia’s voyage to happiness becomes a race against death as a killer stalks the shadowy decks. . . .

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1504097076

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9781504097079

Unidentified Woman

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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Unidentified Woman

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

When four seemingly unsolvable drownings occur, suspicion falls on Victoria Steane, and the beautiful socialite must solve the crimes before she is arrested and before she becomes the next victim. Reissue. PW.

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Grand Central Pub

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0446314617

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9780446314619

Postmark Murder

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

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Postmark Murder

By: Mignon Good Eberhart

Laura March, the ward and heiress to late Chicago businessman Conrad Stanley, befriends a young orphan who has also inherited a portion of Stanley's fortune and becomes the target of suspicion by the other jealous heirs. Reissue.

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Mysterious Press

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0446311812

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9780446311816

The Patient in Cabin C

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The Patient in Cabin C

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When her engagement cruise aboard a luxury yacht turns into a nightmare of murder, strong-minded Sue Gates takes it upon herself to search out the killer lurking among the ship's passengers

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0394531086

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9780394531083

The Hangman's Whip

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

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The Hangman's Whip

By: Mignon G. Eberhart

DIVA Chicago socialite braves death to save her beloved from the gallows/divDIV/divDIVSearch Abbott is high over Chicago when Howland proposes marriage, but her heart is far away. Since childhood she has loved Richard Bohan, and her passion has not dimmed in the three years since he made the mistake of marrying Eve. Howland has few kind words for Richard, but Search’s heart cannot be moved. She declines him, and leaves to visit her Aunt Ludmilla, a kindly old woman who claims she is being poisoned./divDIV /divDIVShe finds Richard staying at Ludmilla’s estate, and all her old feelings come rushing forth. His marriage is finished, he says, as he takes Search in his arms. But joy is fleeting—Eve will never let him go. Search’s hatred for her rival evaporates the moment she finds Eve dangling from a hangman’s noose. The woman was murdered, and the police are going to take Richard away./div

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