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They were Monica Blane's dearest friends. Linda Chavon, Gibbs Brooke, Eric Weller, and John Basevi spent the summer of 1939 with her on the French Riviera—a last celebration of their carefree youth before the winds of war caught up to them. With news of the Nazi invasion of Poland, John, a Polish national, chose to remain in Europe and fight. Linda vowed to stay in France with her aunt. Monica returned to America, regretting never telling John she was in love with him, even though he and Linda were engaged.
Five years later, Monica is in New York, far from wartorn Europe, when she receives a cryptic message from Linda begging for help. Eric is skeptical that the note is real, but it doesn't explain how someone other than Linda would have connected her to Monica. Then Eric is murdered in Monica's apartment. To protect her from the police investigation, Monica's employer and one-time guardian "Uncle" Bill Fiske sends her on a mission to Mexico City with $10,000 in cash to give to John Basevi.
Traveling on a series of connected flights, Monica runs into Gibbs Brooke, now an army captain, who is also en route to Mexico City. Grateful for Gibbs's presence, and nervous about seeing John again, Monica wonders about the coincidences reuniting her group of friends. And the coincidences turn deadly when she arrives at her final destination and finds herself embroiled in a conspriacy of espionage, betrayal, and death . . .
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About the author
Before Agatha Christie ever published a Miss Marple novel, Eberhart wrote romantic crime fiction with female leads. Eight of her books, including While the Patient Slept and Hasty Wedding (1938), were adapted for film. Elected a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1971, Eberhart continued publishing roughly a book a year until the 1980s. Her final novel, Three Days for Emeralds, was published in 1988.
