The Mystery of Hunting's End (1930) by Mignon G. Eberhart

Last year, I reviewed Mignon G. Eberhart's From This Dark Stairway (1931), fourth in the Nurse Keath and Lance O'Leary series, which takes place during the night shifts at Melady Memorial Hospital during an extreme, oppressive heat wave – where a doctor is brutally murdered and a patient inexplicably disappears. Eberhart wrote a grand example of the early 1930s American detective novel with From This Dark Stairway which skillfully ends with the revelation of the murderer's name. It goes without saying I appreciated Eberhart's imaginative approach and handling of the central impossible crime. So it's to be regretted Eberhart returned to the impossible crime story and locked room mystery only three more times over her six decades of writing.Robert Adey's Locked Room Murders (1991) lists The Mystery of Hunting's End (1930) and the short story "The Calico Dog" from The Cases of Susan Dare (1934) and From This Dark Stairway is not listed in either Adey nor Brian Skupin's Locked Room…

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