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Call After Midnight by [Mignon G. Eberhart]

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The acclaimed, Edgar Award–winning author “tells one of her better mystery-romances in Call After Midnight” (The New York Times).
The phone rings just after twelve. Jenny Vleedam knows it cannot be anyone but Peter, and she tries to let it ring. He left her for another woman—a vicious trollop called Fiora—and Jenny has too much self-respect to let him kick her around anymore. But she answers anyway, and hears the words she has been longing for: Fiora has been shot. But as often as she has fantasized about something happening to the woman who stole her husband, now Jenny feels only fear—fear that the police might not believe Peter’s story that Fiora was the one holding the gun. Not knowing if the woman is dead or alive, Jenny rushes to Peter’s side. Guilty or innocent, they will never be apart again.

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444 pages
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Publication date

May 29, 2012
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“[Eberhart is] number one. . . . Engrossing.” —New York Herald Tribune “Old pro Mignon G. Eberhart tells one of her better mystery-romances in Call After Midnight.” —The New York Times “One of the best mystifiers in America.” —Gertrude Stein

About the Author

Mignon G. Eberhart (1899-1996) wrote dozens of mystery novels over a nearly six decade-long career. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began writing in high school, trading English essays to her fellow students in exchange for math homework. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, and in the 1920s began writing fiction in her spare time, publishing her first novel, The Patient in Room 18, in 1929. With the follow-up, While The Patient Slept (1931), she won a $5,000 Scotland Yard Prize, and by the end of the 1930’s was one of the most popular female mystery writers on the planet. Before Agatha Christie ever published a Miss Marple novel, Eberhart was writing romantic crime fiction with female leads. Eight of her books, including While the Patient Slept and Hasty Wedding (1938) were adapted as films. Made a Mystery Writers of America grandmaster in 1971, Eberhart continued publishing roughly a book a year until the 1980s. Her final novel Three Days for Emeralds, was published in 1988.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0081D9HCK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (May 29, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 29, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3396 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 444 pages

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- #4,037 in Mystery Romance
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- #10,215 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)

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Patto

A bizarre murder with all two few suspects

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2020

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Only four other people are in the house when Fiora Vleedam is murdered — her husband Peter, his ex-wife Jenny, two of Peter’s business associates — and none of them could have done it. They all had eyes on each other. An intruder could have got in — but nobody saw an intruder.

Inspector Parenti suspects the husband and ex-wife of somehow being in collusion, but the reader knows Jenny is innocent and entirely truthful. And eventually Jenny seems to the next potential victim of the murderer. We get a lot of suspenseful scenes as Jenny’s terror builds. There’s romance as well as murder in the air. Peter wants Jenny back. And Peter’s associate Cal wants her too.

Mignon Erberhart was prolific, highly paid and often compared to Agatha Christie, but her plots and characters were very different from Christie’s. I enjoy her romantic suspense novels, although they are definitely melodramatic and not literary. This book came out in 1964, and Erberhart continued to publish her Golden Age thrillers until 1988.

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Sheila P.

I love Mignon Eberhart!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2016

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Another Eberhart book and I love them. I have to be in the right mood to read them, as I am right now. This book was written in the 1960's, and if you don't know anything about the 60's you may find it boring and very discreet. There is always a murder and there is one in this book. There is romance, as I said, very discreet. The main character is a young woman in her 20's. And you can go on from there - very enjoyable book!

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Linda L.

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2016

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I always enjoy her mysteries.