Description On a blustery February day Sarah Keate arrives at a gloomy mansion to nurse old Adolph Federie, bedbound after a stroke.
Meeting the patient sets off an alarm inside her, but fleeing the house is impossible.
The redoubtable red-haired nurse is stuck there with a strange coterie and a black cat named Genevieve.
Originally published in 1930, a year after her debut mystery novel The Patient in Room 18, While the Patient Slept strengthened Mignon G.
Eberhart's hold on fame.
About the Author In a career spanning more than a half century Mignon G.
Eberhart has acquired a legion of readers for such well-crafted, atmospheric mysteries as The White Cockatoo, From This Dark Stairway, The Chiffon Scarf, and Woman on the Roof.
Bison Books While the patient slept, paperback/mignon g. eberhart
