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The Mystery of Hunting's End
Copyright:
1998
Bison Books
ISBN-13: 978-0803267374
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Copyright:
1930
Doubleday Crime Club
by Mignon G. Eberhart
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
(available in a Bison Books edition). She helped establish Mignon G.
Eberhart as a mainstay of the golden age of detective fiction.
Listen to Rick Cypert, Nebraska Wesleyan Professor and author of America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life and Works,
introduce The Mystery of Hunting's End in this 14 minute video.
Watch the 1938 movie, Mystery House, based off Mignon G. Eberhart's novel, The Mystery of Hunting's End.