Recommended reading - The Mystery of Hunting’s End, by Mignon G. Eberhart (1930):

The Mystery of Hunting’s End

By Mignon G. Eberhart.

Filmed as Mystery House (1938), directed by Noel M. Smith.

Published by University of Nebraska Press.

First published 1930.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0803267371

ISBN-13: 978-0803267374

Description:

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.

Born on this day – Mignon G. Eberhart:

Mignon G. Eberhart

Writer

July 6, 1899 – October 8, 1996

Credits:

Written work:

Patient in Room 18 (1929); The Mystery of Hunting's End (1930); While the Patient Slept (1930); From This Dark Stairway (1931); Murder by an Aristocrat (aka Murder of My Patient) (1932); Wolf in Man's Clothing (1942); Man Missing (1954); The Cases of Susan Dare (1934); Death in the Fog (aka The Dark Garden) (1933); The White Cockatoo (1933); The House on the Roof (1935); Fair Warning (1936); Danger in the Dark (aka Hand in Glove) (1937); The Pattern (1937); The Glass Slipper (1938); Hasty Wedding (1938); Brief Return (1939); Chiffon Scarf (1939); The Hangman's Whip (1940); Speak No Evil (1941); With This Ring (1941); Fourth Mystery Book (1942); The Man Next Door (1943); Unidentified Woman (1943); Escape the Night (1944); Wings of Fear (1945); Five Passengers from Lisbon (1946); The White Dress (1946); Another Woman's House (1947); House of Storm (1949); Hunt With the Hounds (1950); Never Look Back (1951); Dead Men's Plans (1952); The Unknown Quantity (1953); Postmark Murder (1956); Another Man's Murder (1957); Melora (aka Promise of Murder) (1959); Jury of One (1960); The Crime at Honotassa (aka The Cup, the Blade or the Gun) (1961); Enemy in the House (1962); Run Scared (1963); Call After Midnight (1964); R.S.V.P. Murder (1965); Witness at Large (1966); Woman on the Roof (1967); Message from Hong Kong (1969); El Rancho Rio (1970); Two Little Rich Girls (1971); Murder in Waiting (1973); Nine O'Clock Tide (1975); Danger Money (1975); Family Fortune (1976); Bayou Road (1979); Casa Madrone (1980); Family Affair (1981); Next of Kin (1982); The Patient in Cabin C (1983); Alpine Condo Crossfire (1984); A Fighting Chance (1986); Three Days for Emeralds (1988); Five of My Best (1949); Deadly Is the Diamond (1958); The Crimson Paw (1959); Best Mystery Stories (1988); Mignon G. Eberhart's Best Mystery Stories (1988); Dead Yesterday and Other Stories (2007); Patient in Room 18 / While the Patient Slept (1930); Speak No Evil / with This Ring (1945); Another Woman's House / Cheer for the Dead / Shadow for a Lady (1947); Murder Of A Nymph/ Hunt With The Hounds/ Jews For A Shroud (1950); Melora / Black Gold Murders / Prelude to Murder (1959); Danger Money / Romanov Succession / Horn of Roland (1974); American Detective Stories (1943); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983); Two short stories: Introducing Susan Dare & Spider (dates unknown).

Movies and television:

Murder by an Aristocrat (1936); Mystery House (1938); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); The Dark Stairway (1938); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1935); The Patient in Room 18 (1938); The White Cockatoo (1935); Three's a Crowd (1945); While the Patient Slept (1935).