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"Mignon Eberhart's name on mysteries is like sterling on silver." — The Miami News
An amazing new world opened for Mady when she married Craig Wilson, her friend and former employer. The jewels and the jet-set lifestyle are exciting, but the situation loses its luster after Craig leaves Mady at his sprawling, working ranch in Nevada . . .
One afternoon, a stranger sneaks in and makes a frightening scene, and the next day, Mady finds him dead along the riding trail. Beside him is a bloody railroad spike. It was once just a souvenir decorating their living room but now it's a murder weapon. And then Mady picks up the spike and wipes it off . . .
Soon a storm is brewing. Craig returns early, and guests begin arriving, including Craig's ex-wife and Mady's former fiancé. When a raging blizzard cuts the ranch off from the rest of the world, Mady finds herself trapped with the killer, and they're not finished . . .
"Mignon Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction." —John Jakes
Originally published in 1970.
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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.
