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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.

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 Minäs gloomy mansion¿and then something terrible happens.

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...

Nurse Sarah Keate 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!

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 addi...

Excerpt from The White DressWinnie was talking rapidly, about the week's tennis match in which, it developed as André questioned her, she had won a cup, about some recent changes in the house, about their trip, and the weather in New York, and how nice it was to have them there. Winnie was always dependable socially, Judith rarely. Tim peered ahead at the traffic. Judith smiled and listened.They turned along Biscayne Boulevard and the smell Of...

Excerpt from The White Dress Winnie was talking rapidly, about the week's tennis match in which, it developed as André questioned her, she had won a cup, about some recent changes in the house, about their trip, and the weather in New York, and how nice it was to have them there. Winnie was always dependable socially, Judith rarely. Tim peered ahead at the traffic. Judith smiled and listened. They turned along Biscayne Boulevard and the smel...

This book contains the classic crime novel 'Hunt With the Hounds', and will be an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in this genre. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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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 ...

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.