The Patient in Cabin C

A newly-engaged nurse searches for a killer among the passengers on her fiancé's yacht, in this locked-room mystery from an Edgar Award winner.

When nurse Sue Gates agreed to join Monty Montgomery on his yacht, she knew he intended to ask her to marry him. She also knew she didn't love him but that a marriage to the wealthy entrepreneur would give her and her aunt, whose under her care, some financial security.


But when Sue's new fiancé goes overboard, his cries of foul play once he is rescued arouse her suspicions. When another passenger turns up dead, Sue desperately searches for a murderer lurking among the ship's passengers.

Praise for Mignon Eberhart

"Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction." —John Jakes, author of the North and South Trilogy


"One of America's favorite writers." —Mary Higgins Clark