Mignon G. Eberhart Livres

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.

After a murder at the manor where she’s employed, a nurse trades her stethoscope for a magnifying glass… When Nurse Keate arrives at the Thatcher estate to care for a man with a bullet in his shoulder, she’s told that he shot himself accidentally—but when the convalescing man is murdered soon thereafter, it becomes clear that the only “accident” was his not being fully killed the first time around. A murderer stalks the manor and yet the rest of the family isn’t the slightest bit alarmed; instead, they seem intent on concealing the crime and adding it to the other dark secrets buried deep within their mansion’s walls. Meanwhile, Nurse Keate is passed from one family member to another, each one claiming some spurious ailment requiring her expertise, realizing only too late that the family is anxious to keep her and her knowledge of the crime from leaving the premises. After another apparent murder takes place, she begins to fear that the price of this knowledge may be her life. A thrilling mystery set in the rarified world of a wealthy Midwestern family, Murder by an Aristocrat renders its pulse-pounding suspense and puzzling crimes with eloquent prose, exemplifying why Eberhart was widely known, in her day, as “the atmosphere queen.” It is the fifth installment in the Nurse Keate series, which can be read in any order.

Five years after fleeing to escape certain arrest for murder, Jim Wingate returns to the fiancee he was forced to abandon, determined to obtain immunity from prosecution or to track down the real killer and prove his own innocence

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

Krankenschwester Sarah Keate besucht alte Freunde auf einem isolierten Militärstützpunkt mitten in der Wüste. Als im Hospital eine Krankenschwester ausfällt, bietet Sarah sich als Ersatz an und übernimmt für ein paar Tage eine Station. Während ihres Nachtdienstes fallen ihr ungewöhnliche Vorgänge auf, die sie aber nicht allzu sehr beunruhigen bis kurz darauf einer ihrer Patienten tot aufgefunden wird. Captain Harry Somers, der Kommandant des Stützpunkts, leitet eine umfangreiche Ermittlung ein, die jedoch vorerst kaum Ergebnisse zeigt. Fest steht nur, dass der Täter unter den stationierten Personen gesucht werden muss, denn wegen der äußerst strengen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen hätte ein Fremder das Hospital nicht unbemerkt betreten können. Während sich unter den Patienten, Offizieren und der Mannschaft langsam Panik ausbreitet, machen sich Sarah und ihre Freundin Kitty, Harry Somers Frau, Sorgen um den Kommandanten. Denn der ermordete Lieutenant Parly, ein disziplinloser junge r Mann, hatte vor seinem Tod verleumderische Gerüchte über seinen Vorgesetzten in die Welt gesetzt. Sarah und Kitty befürchten, dass dies als Motiv bewertet werden könnte, und setzen alles daran, schnellstmöglich den wahren Mörder zu überführen ...

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