The Mystery Novels of Mignon G. Eberhart, Volume One: House of Storm, Postmark Murder, and Call After Midnight

by Mignon G. Eberhart

The three novels collected here—written in 1949, 1955, and 1964—offer further evidence that “Eberhart’s name on mysteries is like sterling on silver” (Miami News).

Contents:
• "House of Storm" On a Caribbean island in the path of a hurricane, Nonie is torn between the older man she’s engaged to and the man she’s truly in love with — a suspected murderer.   “Mounting tension . . . one of [Eberhart’s] most successful glamour romances yet.” —The New York Times  
• "Postmark Murder" Following the death of a wealthy Chicago businessman, his ward Laura March must protect her fellow heir — an orphaned girl from Poland — and clear herself of a murder after a mysterious stranger is stabbed. “A nice example of [Eberhart’s] powers . . . Intelligently complicated.” —The New Yorker
• "Call After Midnight" A late-night phone call from Jenny Vleedam’s ex-husband revealing that his girlfriend has been shot places the divorcée in danger.   “Eberhart tells one of her better mystery-romances in Call After Midnight.” —The New York Times

775 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 19, 2018

About the author

Mignon Good (1899-1996) was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. She studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1917 to 1920. In 1923 she married Alanson C. Eberhart, a civil engineer. After working as a freelance journalist, she decided to become a full-time writer. In 1929 her first crime novel was published featuring 'Sarah Keate', a nurse and 'Lance O'Leary', a police detective. This couple appeared in another four novels. In the Forties, she and her husband divorced. She married John Hazen Perry in 1946 but two years later she divorced him and remarried her first husband. Over the next forty years she wrote a novel nearly every year. In 1971 she won the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America. She also wrote many short stories featuring banker/amateur sleuth James Wickwire (who could be considered a precursor to Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher) and mystery writer/amateur sleuth Susan Dare.