Mignon Good Eberhart

Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. His decades of groundbreaking work with these amazing animals - who share more than 98 percent of our DNA - made scientific history as their unprecedented dialogues opened a window into chimpanzee consciousness and the origins of human language and intelligence. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his personal and professional odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. At the heart of this captivating book is Fouts's magical thirty-year friendship with Washoe, whom we watch grow from a mischievous baby chimp fresh out of the NASA space program into the matriarch of a clan of chimpanzees who fill these pages with tales of humor and heartbreak, pathos and love. Living and conversing with these sensitive creatures has given Fouts a profound appreciation of how much we share with our closest biological relatives, and what they can teach us about ourselves. Fouts also describes the crisis of conscience he faced when he discovered that hundreds of chimpanzees were being subjected to perilous biomedical experimentation in laboratories across America. At significant risk to his own career, he became an outspoken advocate for improved conditions for animals in research labs, and devoted himself to rescuing this lost generation of chimpanzees.

Out the window / Lawrence Block Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. The third man / Graham Greene The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes Unc foils show foe / John Jakes Dangerous widows / Mignon G. Eberhart Ride the lightning / John Lutz Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy The day of the losers / Dick Francis The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun The investigation of things / Charles Ardai The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain The adventure of the oval window / John H. Dirckx Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch [The Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe [The man with the twisted lip]( / Arthur Conan Doyle

On the day of her best friend's Las Vegas wedding, Clare Gilroy fears that her own walk down the aisle will never happen...until she finds herself falling for best man—and town outcast—Reed Tonasket. After a dizzying night in the glitter of Vegas, Clare wakes to find a ring on her finger and a husband by her side. It should be everything she's ever wanted, but can a man like Reed ever fit into the life she left back home

Twelve short crime novels: Leslie Charteris - The Lawless Lady Mignon Eberhart - Introducing Susan Dare Cornell Woolrich - Nightmare John D. MacDonald - Death's Eye View Hugh Pentecost - The Murder Machine Erle Stanley Gardner - Death Rides a Boxcar Ross Macdonald - The Bearded Lady Fredric Brown - Murder Set to Music Rex Stout - The Zero Clue Ed McBain - Storm Daphne du Maurier - Don't Look Now Bill Pronzini - Booktaker

With the success of a New York job behind her and a gay lift in her heart, Serena March returned to Monterey to visit her sister. It was to be a short visit, and one full of fun; but, as things turned out, the bottom fell out of her world. The gay and carefree California group of friends she remembered so well, the sharp, dramatic countryside, even her own lovely sister were not and could not be as she remembered them. Something horrible had touched each one; something unclean was suddenly smeared across her brilliant happiness... something as evil as suspicion and as terrible as murder.

Table of Contents: 1) The Case of the Crimson Kiss (Perry Mason series), 1948, novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner (56pgs) 2) Fingers of Fong, 1933, short story by Erle Stanley Gardner (19pgs) 3) The Valley of Little Fears, 1930, short story by Erle Stanley Gardner (17pgs) 4) Crooked Lightning, 1928, short story by Erle Stanley Gardner (15pgs) 5) At Arm's Length, 1939, short story by Erle Stanley Gardner (39pgs) 6) El Rancho Rio, 1970, mystery novel by Mignon G. Eberhart (162pgs)

When a judge is shot, his widow is certain the killer is a recently paroled ex-con who vowed revenge. But suspicion also falls on the judge's young ward and heir when her fingerprints are found on the murder weapon.

From Google Books: "What did the crypic message from Hong Kong mean? To Marcia Lowry's father-in-law, it indicates that his ne'er-do-well son Dino is still alive three years after he has inexplicably vanished. Since Mr. Lowry is an invalid and Marcia wishes to marry again and begin a new life, it is up to her to fly to the Far East and try to track down the wayward husband she no longer wants." Published in 1969 while Hong Kong was still a Crown Colony and mainland China was shut fast against foreigners.

It was Myra's brother, Tim, whose testimony had locked the prison door on Alice Thorne for the murder of Jack Manders. Though she fought it with all her strength, Myra fell in love with Richard Thorne, Alice's husband. When Myra told him that she must leave, Richard finally recognized his feelings and made a decision to divorce Alice and marry Myra. But that same night, the impossible happened. A beautiful face turned toward Richard and announced, "Darling, I've come back. I'll never leave you again." It was Alice.... In Another Woman's House, Mignon G. Eberhart is at the top of her form, developing a story against the backdrop of swank Westchester County in the most unusual novel of her career.

When Lacy Wales receives a frantic letter from a long-lost friend, Rose Murphy Mendez, she hesitates only briefly before showing it to her nice new lawyer boss, Hiram Bascom, and asking his advice. Neither of them can decide if the letter is really a desperate plea for help or the crazed ravings of a deranged woman. Against Bascom's better judgment, Lacy leaves the Manhattan town house where she lives with her widowed stepmother, Inez, and drives to the village in upstate New York where Rose is hiding out. At her distraught friend's request, Lacy serves her a soothing drink of whiskey, and before her horrified eyes, Rose drops dead. Wandering about the house in confusion, Lacy thinks she sees something moving on the grounds behind it, but she is not sure there is actually anything there. Suffering shock upon shock, she finds a snapshot in Rose's bedroom with an astonishing and compromising inscription by Lacy's own fiancé, Richard Blake, who is away on one of his frequent hush-hush assignments for the top-secret Washington government agency where he works. Later, Carlos Mendez, Rose's ex-husband and the wealthy owner of an emerald mine, turns out, incredibly, to be related to Inez. These are the opening moves in a story that becomes more and more complex. Is Rose's death an accident or murder? If it is murder, will the police officially accuse Lacy of the crime? Will her fiancé come forth to explain? In what way is Mendez still involved with his ex-wife? How will Lacy cope with her growing and disturbing attraction to Hi Bascom? Why does the subject of emeralds keep coming up?

The Sand Hills of Nebraska, where Mignon G. Eberhart lived as a newlywed, inspired the setting of this 1930 chiller. Smack in the middle of the rolling desolation is Hunting's End, a weekend lodge owned by the rich Kingery family. To that place socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests -- the same people who were at the lodge when her father died of "heart failure" exactly five years ago. She intends to find out which one of them murdered him. Posing as another guest is the dapper young detective Lance O'Leary. At his recommendation Matil has engaged Nurse Sarah Keate to care for Aunt Lucy Kingery at Hunting's End -- not a pleasant assignment, as it turns out. Gathered at the lodge, Matil's guests are shut off from the outside by a November snowstorm. A collie named Jericho mopes around, and a stray cat seems to herald new, clearly unnatural deaths. What a trap to spring on people used to good wine and fresh-cut flowers at dinner! Nurse Keate is the same sharp-eyed, stiletto-tongued, strong-stomached Nightingale and sleuth who was introduced in The Patient in Room 18 and While the Patient Slept. She helped establish Mignon G. Eberhart as a mainstay of the golden age of detective fiction.