Another Man's Murder
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"Mignon Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction." —John Jakes
After a six-year absence, Cayce Clary has returned to Florida lake country and his childhood home to confront his past, but he doesn't like what he sees. His once-rich orange groves are doing poorly in his uncle's care, turning his reunion with the old man into a violent quarrel. As Cayce leaves for the airport, he declares he will only come back when his uncle is dead. Unfortunately, that is sooner than Cayce thinks.
When the uncle is found shot to death, Cayce is soon fighting for his life and his land. Although many hated the old man, Cayce had motive, means, and opportunity, making him the prime suspect. Fortunately, the Howard sisters, Dodie and Midge, believe he is innocent. To prove it, one of them will play right into a killer's hands . . .
"Mignon Eberhart's name on mysteries is like sterling on silver." — The Miami News
Originally published in 1957.
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About the author
Mignon G. Eberhart (1899-1996) wrote dozens of mystery novels over a nearly six decade-long career. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began writing in high school, trading English essays to her fellow students in exchange for math homework. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, and in the 1920s began writing fiction in her spare time, publishing her first novel, The Patient in Room 18, in 1929. With the follow-up, While The Patient Slept (1931), she won a $5,000 Scotland Yard Prize, and by the end of the 1930's was one of the most popular female mystery writers on the planet.
Before Agatha Christie ever published a Miss Marple novel, Eberhart was writing romantic crime fiction with female leads. Eight of her books, including While the Patient Slept and Hasty Wedding (1938) were adapted as films. Made a Mystery Writers of America grandmaster in 1971, Eberhart continued publishing roughly a book a year until the 1980s. Her final novel Three Days for Emeralds, was published in 1988.
