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Mystery of Hunting's End by Mignon G. Eberhart & Jay Fultz
Hunting's End, owned by the rich Kingery family is the place to where socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests - the same people who were at this lodge when her father died of "heart failure". She intends to find out which one of them murdered him. This book also features young detective Lance O'Leary and Nurse Sarah Keate.The Sand Hills of Nebraska, where Mignon G. 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. Jay Fultz is "Bison Books" editor at the University of Nebraska Press and the author of a forthcoming biography of Donna Reed. |
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| Author(s) : Mignon G. Eberhart & Jay Fultz | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0803267371 | ISBN-13 : 9780803267374 |
| RRP : £12.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 01/06/1998
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page Length : 341mm
Page Size : 130mm