Alpine Condo Crossfire

by Mignon G. Eberhart

Feisty young television news researcher Emmy Brace visits the posh condominium of her uncle-guardian and his young wife and enters a world of intrigue and murder

Genres: Mystery

240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

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.

Reviews

[Sandi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty fluffy. However author was one of first women mystery writers and widely acclaimed. Dated now but I still enjoy them.

[robyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

It would be interesting to know exactly when Emmy had her spine removed. The mystery was well done! I didn't know whodunit but I thought Eberhart was completely fair, she was just successful in redirecting our attention.

But lordy, lordy - Emmy, China, Kate, even Belle - not entirely what you'd call a strong, sympathetic female character among them. None of them are all bad, but I wish I could entirely like any one of them.

[Beth · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poor!

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pleasant escape. I suppose that everyone involved in an old event could have moved to the same upscale "condo" development independently