{"title":"Mignon Good Eberhart Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse the books by Mignon Good Eberhart we have in stock, second-hand, in paperback. Mostly fiction, as well as crime and thrillers. Every book ships from our own UK warehouse. Free UK delivery on orders of £10 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-patient-in-room-18","title":"The Patient in Room 18","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The American Agatha Christie,\" as she is sometimes called, Mignon G. Eberhart has a huge following among mystery buffs. Her adroit style and penchant for chilling atmosphere are evident in The Patient in Room 18, her literary debut of 1929. It introduces the emphatic Nurse Sarah Keate, who helped popularize mystery novels and movies set in hospital wards amid the ominous gleam of medical instruments. Eberhart once said of the redoubtable, red-haired Nurse Keate, \"I loved her because she had a good sharp tongue.\" The head nurse needs all her wits in The Patient in Room 18, which begins off-duty with an unpleasant dinner party and mixes radium with murder, drawing in the cunning Detective O'Leary, beautiful Maida with the lapis lazuli cufflinks, and sinister Corole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mignon-good-eberhart-books\"\u003eMignon Good Eberhart\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0803267274\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £21.30","offer_id":47901028384945,"sku":"SB-0803267274-C3","price":21.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0803267274.jpg?v=1789393475"},{"product_id":"wolf-in-mans-clothing","title":"Wolf in Man's Clothing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is a romance here, but instead of interfering with the mystery element, it serves to increase and accentuate the suspense. The story is absorbing.\"-New York Times. Another vintage Nurse Keate mystery by Mignon G. Eberhart, Wolf in Man's Clothing takes Sarah to a gloomy mansion in the remote Berkshire Hills. She nurses a young man with fatal connections to some poisonous people stuck at the scene-privileged people who are used to getting their way and are unprepared for Sarah. This Bison Books edition is introduced by Carl D. Brandt, whose literary agency has represented Eberhart since she left her native Nebraska in the early thirties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mignon-good-eberhart-books\"\u003eMignon Good Eberhart\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e U of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780803267329\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"U of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £13.71","offer_id":47901028417713,"sku":"SB-0803267320-C3","price":13.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0803267320.jpg?v=1788843174"},{"product_id":"while-the-patient-slept","title":"While the Patient Slept","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is Mrs. Eberhart's second mystery story, and it is even better than her first.\"--New York Times. \"It has all the ingredients of a first rate thriller. Federie House, with its sombre ruggedness on an almost deserted road, with its mysterious turrets, its darkened draperies, its heavily carpeted floors, and its sinister occupants, is an almost perfect setting for a mystery story.\"--Saturday Review of Literature. \"This book places detective fiction on a higher level than ever before.\"--Bookman. \"Eerie it is, as eerie can be, and a good yarn to boot.\"--Outlook. 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. In a career spanning more than a half century she has acquired a legion of readers for such well-crafted, atmospheric mysteries as The White Cockatoo, From This Dark Stairway, The Chiffon Scarf, and Woman on the Roof.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mignon-good-eberhart-books\"\u003eMignon Good Eberhart\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e U of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780803267268\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"U of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £11.25","offer_id":47914321805489,"sku":"SB-0803267266-C3","price":11.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0803267266.jpg?v=1789280622"},{"product_id":"from-this-dark-stairway","title":"From This Dark Stairway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Should you have a friend who is convalescing in a hospital, do not send him [or her] this novel to while away the time. It would probably 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\".-New York Times. Nurse Sarah Keate, the amateur snoop who made readers of The Patient in Room 18 and While the Patient Slept shudder, is back in stand-up-to-the-devil form. Now she supervises the third floor of a metropolitan hospital. From the landings of a walnut stairway, unlighted for the sake of economy, she can see everything going on. She generally uses the stairs instead of the lurching cagelike elevator, but one sweltering summer night-! Let her tell the strange story of a body where it shouldn't be, and no body where it should have been. From This Dark Stairway, originally published in 1931, belongs to the golden age of detective fiction. Some suspiciously stylish people, a formula for a superior anesthetic, an antique Chinese snuff-bottle that Philo Vance would have coveted-these elements come together classically and chillingly. Introducing this Bison Books edition is M. K. Lorens, author of the acclaimed detective-mystery novels, Dreamland, Sweet Narcissus, and Sorrowheart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mignon-good-eberhart-books\"\u003eMignon Good Eberhart\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e U of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780803267299\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"U of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £51.78","offer_id":47914321838257,"sku":"SB-0803267290-C3","price":51.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0803267290.jpg?v=1789282438"},{"product_id":"death-in-the-fog","title":"Death in the Fog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"From the first page to the last, this story is pervaded by the atmosphere of horror and suspense that invariably marks the work of Mignon G. Eberhart. A murder, to her, is something more than a mere crime puzzle to be worked out for the entertainment of the reader. It is a tragic event which deeply affects the destinies of those who are in any way involved.\"-New York Times. Fog and sleet make driving hazardous in the Chicago traffic. When Katie Warren momentarily stops her car on Michigan Boulevard, she hears a shrouded voice say, \"I won't eat grape hair, nor yet glocks.\" The image of grape hair is sinister enough to stick in Katie's mind. Steering through bad weather, she eventually reaches Aunt Mina's gloomy mansion-and then something terrible happens. Originally published in 1933, Death in the Fog is one of the most chilling mysteries ever crafted by Mignon G. 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Eberhart lived as a newlywed, inspired the setting of this 1930 chiller. Smack in the middle of the rolling desolation is Hunting's End, a weekend lodge owned by the rich Kingery family. To that place socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests-the same people who were at the lodge when her father died of \"heart failure\" exactly five years ago. She intends to find out which one of them murdered him. Posing as another guest is the dapper young detective Lance O'Leary. At his recommendation Matil has engaged Nurse Sarah Keate to care for Aunt Lucy Kingery at Hunting's End-not a pleasant assignment, as it turns out. Gathered at the lodge, Matil's guests are shut off from the outside by a November snowstorm. A collie named Jericho mopes around, and a stray cat seems to herald new, clearly unnatural deaths. What a trap to spring on people used to good wine and fresh-cut flowers at dinner! Nurse Keate is the same sharp-eyed, stiletto-tongued, strong-stomached Nightingale and sleuth who was introduced in The Patient in Room 18 and While the Patient Slept. She helped establish Mignon G. Eberhart as a mainstay of the golden age of detective fiction. Eberhart had a long career that brought her the Grand Masters Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. She died at the age of ninety-seven in 1996. 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