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Nebraska Author Mignon Eberhart
A List of Works by Nebraska Author
Mignon G. Eberhart
Mignon Good Eberhart was born in Lincoln’s University Place neighborhood on July 6, 1899, and received her degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University, where she studied English and History. Known as something of an American “Agatha Christie,” she gained renown for writing novels that mix mystery, suspense and romance. Among her numerous awards, she was given the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1971. Her first published novel was The Patient in Room 18 in 1929, and she remained an active writer of mystery fiction until the late 1980s. Mignon G. Eberhart died in Greenwich, CT on October 8, 1996. Over the course of her career, she wrote 59 mystery novels and numerous short stories.
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Mignon G. Eberhart’s published novels and short story collections
1929 – The Patient in Room 18
1930 – While The Patient Slept
1930 – Mystery of Hunting’s End (selected as the One Book One Nebraska statewide reading title for 2023)
1931 – From This Dark Stairway
1932 – Murder By An Aristocrat
1933 – Dark Garden
1933 – White Cockatoo
1934 – The Cases of Susan Dare *
1935 – Fair Warning
1935 – House on the Roof
1936 – Danger in the Dark
1937 – Hasty Wedding
1937 – The Pattern
1938 – Glass Slipper
1938 – 320 College Avenue: A Comedy in Three Acts (play)
1939 – Brief Return
1939 – Chiffon Scarf
1940 – Hangman’s Whip
1940 – Strangers in Flight
1941 – Speak No Evil (expanded version of Strangers in Flight)
1941 – With This Ring
1942 – Wolf In Man’s Clothing
1943 – The Man Next Door
1943 – Unidentified Woman
1944 – Escape the Night
1945 – Wings of Fear
1946 – Five Passengers from Lisbon
1946 – White Dress
1947 – Another Woman’s House
1949 – Five of My Best *
1949 – House of Storm
1950 – Hunt With the Hounds
1951 – Never Look Back
1952 – Dead Men’s Plans
1953 – Unknown Quantity
1954 – Man Missing
1956 – Postmark Murder
1957 – Another Man’s Murder
1958 – Deadly is the Diamond *
1959 – The Crimson Paw *
1959 – Melora
1960 – Jury of One
1961 – Cup, the Blade, or the Gun
1963 – Enemy in the House
1963 – Run Scared
1964 – Call After Midnight
1965 – RSVP Murder
1966 – Witness at Large
1967 – Woman on the Roof
1969 – Message from Hong Kong
1970 – El Rancho Rio
1972 – The House By the Sea
1972 – Two Little Rich Girls
1973 – Murder in Waiting
1975 – Danger Money
1976 – Family Fortune
1978 – Nine O’Clock Tide
1979 – Bayou Road
1980 – Casa Madrone
1981 – Family Affair
1982 – Next of Kin
1983 – The Patient in Cabin C
1984 – Alpine Condo Crossfire
1986 – A Fighting Chance
1988 – Mignon Eberhart’s Best Mystery Stories *
1988 – Three Days for Emeralds
2007 – Dead Yesterday…and Other Stories *DVDs in Lincoln City Libraries Collection
1934 – The White Cockatoo
1935 – While the Patient Slept
2010 – Rick Cypert: Author (a John H. Ames Reading Series production)Biography of Mignon Eberhart
2005 – America’s Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life and Works by Rick Cypert
* – short story collection
Updated October 2003 sdc / last updated May 2023 sdc