Book 1988
Mignon G. Eberhart's Best Mystery Stories
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- Publisher
- Warner Books
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
For that delectably artful combination of intrigue, glamour, romance, and murder -- as millions of devoted readers know -- there is but one indisputable source: Mignon G. Eberhart. Here, with a specially written introduction by the author, is a dozen of Eberhart's most masterly mysteries, back in print by popular demand, featuring dauntless and celebrated sleuths Wickwire, Sarah Keate, and Susan Dare. Includes:
MURDER BY NIGHT
...wherein one of three people at the dinner is a forger and murderer, and even the photograph of the culprit is no clue.
THE GATE AT NUMBER NINETY
...whereby suspicion is cast on a sweetly innocuous woman who purchases widow's weeds the morning before her husband's murder.
THE BLOND FROM SUMATRA
...wherefrom a couple with a penchant for dying in peculiar places is pondered.
THE OLD MAN'S DIAMOND
...whereof the puzzle of a priceless jewel of bloody history is clarified by a simple water carafe and humble apple.
THE WAGSTAFF PEARLS
...wherewith a deadly enigma is spun around the heroine's pretty white wrists and a dream of blossoms.