The Mystery of Hunting's End

High-society partygoers get snowed in with a killer at a hunting lodge in this classic by “one of America’s favorite writers” (Mary Higgins Clark).

2023 Selection for One Book One Nebraska

“Mignon Eberhart’s name on mysteries is like sterling on silver.” —The Miami News

As a nurse, sharp-tongued redhead Sarah Keate goes above and beyond to help her patients. That occasionally requires her to moonlight as an amateur sleuth and solve a murder or two in a mysterious locale . . .

Socialite Matil Kingery is throwing a party at her wealthy family’s isolated hunting lodge in the desolate wilderness. The guest list is an eccentric bunch who all have one thing in common: they were at the lodge five years ago when Matil’s father allegedly died of heart failure. But Matil knows differently. One of them murdered her father, and she is determined to find out who . . .

There are also two new faces in the group. Detective Lance O’Leary is undercover as a guest and former patient of his friend, Nurse Sarah Keate, who has been hired to care for Matil’s elderly spitfire aunt. Lance and Sarah are no strangers to puzzling crimes, but they have their work cut out for them as the well-to-do guests begin arriving at the lodge.

Soon a November snowstorm shuts the party off from the outside world, trapping them inside with a killer. It’s up to Sarah and Lance to quickly unmask them before they can strike again . . .

“Mignon Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction.” —John Jakes

Originally published in 1930.