The Patient in Cabin C

by Mignon G. Eberhart

When her engagement cruise aboard a luxury yacht turns into a nightmare of murder, strong-minded Sue Gates takes it upon herself to search out the killer lurking among the ship's passengers

Genres: Mystery

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

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

[Regan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fabulous read. Truly wonderful. I wasn't so sure in the beginning because it was a lot of telling without any emotion or dialogue that led you anywhere. If it weren't a book club read I would have based on those first 20 pages or so but then the story really took off!

I thought the dog, Sissy, had solved the murder. Then, of course, as usual the dog was my favorite character. Hard as it may be to believe, the inclusion of a sandbox for her added some interesting twists to the story. Eberhart kept me guessing until the very end who done it.

[Mare · Rating 4 out of 5]

I do so enjoy her writing.

[Reed · Rating 1 out of 5]

The WORST, WORST, WORST, WORST, MOST AWFUL, MOST AMATEURISH, MOST AWFUL, MOST HORRIBLE, MOST TURGID, MOST HORRIBLY WRITTEN, MOST AWFUL "mystery" I've ever read. Who the hell is Mignon Eberhart anyway??? A remainder on a table in Stamford, Connecticut, and twenty-four years later I still remember how it made my fingernails curl away from the page of their own horrified accord...

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review to come.