Mignon G. Eberhart
WORST, WORST, WORST, WORST, MOST AWFUL, MOST AMATEURISH, MOST AWFUL, MOST HORRIBLE, MOST TURGID, MOST HORRIBLY WRITTEN, MOST AWFUL "mystery" I've ever read, Who the hell is Mignon Eberhart anyway A remainder on a table in Stamford, Connecticut, and twentyfour years later I still remember how it made my fingernails curl away from the page of their own horrified accord.
. . Fabulous read. Truly wonderful. I wasn't so sure in the beginning because it was a lot of telling without any emotion or dialogue that led you anywhere, If it weren't a book club read I would have based on those firstpages or so but then the story really took off!
I thought the dog, Sissy, had solved the murder.
Then, of course, as usual the dog was my favorite character, Hard as it may be to believe, the inclusion of a sandbox for her added some interesting twists to the story, Eberhart kept me guessing until the very end who done it, to come. The trip aboard the FELICE began as a pleasure cruise, Attractive young Sue Gates was certain that the yacht's owner Monty Montgomery intended to announce their engagement,
Keate, a nurse and Lance OLeary, a police detective, This couple appeared in another four novels, In the Forties, she and her husband divorced, She married John Hazen Perry inbut two years later she divorced him and remarried her first husband, Over the next forty years she wrote a novel nearly every year, Inshe won the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America, She also wrote many short stories f Mignon Goodwas born in Lincoln, Nebraska, She studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University fromto, Inshe married Alanson C, Eberhart, a civil engineer. After working as a freelance journalist, she decided to become a full time writer, Inher first crime novel was published featuring 'Sarah Keate', a nurse and 'Lance O'Leary', a police detective, This couple appeared in another four novels, In the Forties, she and her husband divorced, She married John Hazen Perry inbut two years later she divorced him and remarried her first husband, Over the next forty years she wrote a novel nearly every year, Inshe won the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America, She also wrote many short stories featuring banker/amateur sleuth James Wickwire who could be considered a precursor to Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher and mystery writer/amateur sleuth Susan Dare.
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. . Fabulous read. Truly wonderful. I wasn't so sure in the beginning because it was a lot of telling without any emotion or dialogue that led you anywhere, If it weren't a book club read I would have based on those firstpages or so but then the story really took off!
I thought the dog, Sissy, had solved the murder.
Then, of course, as usual the dog was my favorite character, Hard as it may be to believe, the inclusion of a sandbox for her added some interesting twists to the story, Eberhart kept me guessing until the very end who done it, to come. The trip aboard the FELICE began as a pleasure cruise, Attractive young Sue Gates was certain that the yacht's owner Monty Montgomery intended to announce their engagement,
Then Terror seized the ship, Monty almost lost his life when he was pushed overboard, the yacht's steward was mysteriously killed, and the ship's engines stopped dead,
The Passenger list included both lovers and enemies: icily beautiful Celia Hadley, . . naval officer Stan Brooke bedridden millionaire Sam Wiley and Monty's sultry halfsister Lalice, But their intrigues soon gave way to a nightmare of deathfor now Sue, Monty, and the others were at the mercy of a murderer as cold as the shrouded sea they sailed.
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Keate, a nurse and Lance OLeary, a police detective, This couple appeared in another four novels, In the Forties, she and her husband divorced, She married John Hazen Perry inbut two years later she divorced him and remarried her first husband, Over the next forty years she wrote a novel nearly every year, Inshe won the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America, She also wrote many short stories f Mignon Goodwas born in Lincoln, Nebraska, She studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University fromto, Inshe married Alanson C, Eberhart, a civil engineer. After working as a freelance journalist, she decided to become a full time writer, Inher first crime novel was published featuring 'Sarah Keate', a nurse and 'Lance O'Leary', a police detective, This couple appeared in another four novels, In the Forties, she and her husband divorced, She married John Hazen Perry inbut two years later she divorced him and remarried her first husband, Over the next forty years she wrote a novel nearly every year, Inshe won the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America, She also wrote many short stories featuring banker/amateur sleuth James Wickwire who could be considered a precursor to Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher and mystery writer/amateur sleuth Susan Dare.
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