Mignon G. Eberhart

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Mignon Good Eberhart (born July 6, 1899 in University Place / Lincoln , Nebraska, † October 8, 1996 in Greenwich , Connecticut) was an American crime writer .

resume

Mignon Good studied English and History at Nebraska Wesleyan University for three years without graduating. In 1923 she married the civil engineer Alanson Eberhart. She worked as a journalist and started writing stories and novels. Her first book, entitled The Patient in Room 18 , was published in 1929, in which the nurse Sarah Keate and the police officer O'Leary solved her first case. The amateur detective successfully completed five cases before Eberhart switched investigators. Two more Keate novels followed later.

Her early successes coincided with the golden age of the detective novel founded by Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Gilbert K. Chesterton in England and by her, Margery Allingham and others in the United States. Her third novel, Murder in the Cabin , earned her the sizeable $ 5,000 and the Scotland Yard Prize . In the early 30s she was one of the most successful and highest paid American writers and was also known as the American Agatha Christie. In 1935 she received an honorary doctorate from her former university. In the second half of the 1930s some of her novels were also made into films.

In 1946 the author divorced her husband, but after only two years of marriage to John Hazen Perry, she returned to Eberhart and the two remarried.

Mignon Good Eberhart was also involved with the Mystery Writers of America , the association of American crime writers , and was their chair for a time. In 1971 she received the Association's Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement. A second popular US crime award , the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement , followed in 1994.

In 60 years almost as many novels, numerous short stories and two plays by Mignon G. Eberhart have appeared almost every year, and when her last novel Three Days for Emeralds was published in 1988 she was already 88 years old. Mignon Eberhart died in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1996.

Works

In the 50s to 70s, Mignon G. Eberhart's novels were also published in German, primarily by Scherz and Ullstein . The series about Sarah Keate was published by Goldmann between 1997 and 2002.

Sarah Keate

  • Übers. Ernst Weiß : The Patient in Room 18. 1930 ( The Patient in Room 18 , 1929)
  • While the patient is asleep ( While the Patient Slept , 1930)
  • Murder in the Hunting Lodge ( The Mystery of Hunting's End , 1930)
  • The Stairway in the Dark ( From This Dark Stairways , 1931)
  • On a cool summer night ( Murder by an Aristocrat , 1932)
  • Nobody wants it to be ( Murder of my Patient , 1941)
  • The Wolf in Sheep 's Clothing ( Wolf in Man's Clothing , 1942)
  • Deadly Intentions ( Man Missing , 1954)

Other

  • The dark garden ( The Dark Garden , 1933)
  • Murder in B flat minor ( The House on the Roof , 1935)
  • The Green Hands ( The Glass Slipper , 1938)
  • The Last Visit ( Hasty Wedding , 1938)
  • The silk scarf ( The Chiffon Scarf , 1939)
  • Five minutes later ( The Hangman's Whip , 1940)
  • The Warning Monkeys ( Speak No Evil , 1941)
  • The Jewels of the Chatoniers ( With This Ring , 1941)
  • The man next door ( The Man Next Door , 1943)
  • Death Is Around ( Escape the Night , 1944)
  • The white robe ( The White Dress , 1946)
  • The Black Medallion ( Another Woman's House , 1947)
  • The Eerie Isle ( The House of Storm , 1949)
  • The crowd is going on ( Hunt With the Hounds , 1950)
  • Never look back ( Never Look Back , 1951)
  • The legacy of the Dead ( Dead Men's Plan , 1952)
  • Dangerous Shadows ( The Unknown Quantity , 1953)
  • Deadly Mail ( Postmark Murder , 1956)
  • The Curse of Evil Deed ( Another Man's Murder , 1957)
  • Mystery of Melora ( Melora , 1959)
  • House above the Abyss ( Jury of One , 1960)
  • Betrayal Honotassa ( The Crime at Honotassa , 1961)
  • Killers under my roof ( Enemy in the House , 1962)
  • Call after midnight ( Call After Midnight , 1964)
  • Silence Them ( Witness at Large , 1966)
  • Murder as it stands ( Woman on the Roof , 1968)
  • Life is Short in Hong Kong ( Message from Hong Kong , 1969)
  • Becoming a widow is not difficult ... ( El Rancho Rio , 1970)
  • Dakapo for a Murder ( Two Little Rich Girls , 1971)
  • Three Last Words ( Murder in Waiting , 1973)
  • Murderous Millions ( Danger Money , 1975)
  • Midnight Wedding ( Family Fortune , 1976)
  • Nice Night for Murder ( Nine O'Clock Tide , 1976)

literature

  • Rick Cypert: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life and Works. Susquehanna University Press, 2005, ISBN 1-57591-088-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Creighton University, Nebraska ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mockingbird.creighton.edu
  2. ↑ Brief description on Nico van Embden's crime thriller page
personal data
SURNAME Eberhart, Mignon G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberhart, Mignon Good (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln , Nebraska , USA
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1996
Place of death Greenwich , Connecticut , USA