Mignon G. Eberhart's Best Mystery Stories

the long version

For that delectably artful combination of intrigue, glamour, romance, and murder -- as millions of devoted readers know -- there is but one indisputable source: Mignon G. Eberhart. Here, with a specially written introduction by the author, are fourteen of Eberhart's most masterly short mysteries, back in print by popular demand, featuring dauntless and celebrated sleuths Wickwire, Sarah Keate, and Susan Dare. Includes: MURDER BY NIGHT ...wherein one of three people at the dinner is a forger and murderer, and even the photograph of the culprit is no clue. THE GATE AT NUMBER NINETY ...whereby suspicion is cast on a sweetly innocuous woman who purchases widow's weeds the morning before her husband's murder. THE BLOND FROM SUMATRA ...wherefrom a couple with a penchant for dying in peculiar places is pondered. THE OLD MAN'S DIAMOND ...whereof the puzzle of a priceless jewel of bloody history is clarified by a simple water carafe and humble apple. THE WAGSTAFF PEARLS ...wherewith a deadly enigma is spun around the heroine's pretty white wrists and a dream of blossoms.