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Lädt ... The Patient in Room 18 (1929)von Mignon G. Eberhart
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"The American Agatha Christie," as she is sometimes called, Mignon G. Eberhart has a huge following among mystery buffs. Her adroit style and penchant for chilling atmosphere are evident in The Patient in Room 18, her literary debut of 1929. It introduces the emphatic Nurse Sarah Keate, who helped popularize mystery novels and movies set in hospital wards amid the ominous gleam of medical instruments. Eberhart once said of the redoubtable, red-haired Nurse Keate, "I loved her because she had a good sharp tongue." The head nurse needs all her wits in The Patient in Room 18, which begins off-duty with an unpleasant dinner party and mixes radium with murder, drawing in the cunning Detective O'Leary, beautiful Maida with the lapis lazuli cufflinks, and sinister Corole. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.2)
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The board of St Anne's Hospital has just spent $65,000 on a gram of radium, the latest treatment fad. It has been strapped to the chest of the patient in Room 18. The patient dies and the radium disappears. Nurse Keate helps the detective, Lance O'Leary, solve the crime.
Suspects pop in and out of Room 18 as though they were in a French farce.
This was a bit on the racist side. Corole, cousin of the head doctor, "does love clothes and finery. It is on account of her - dark blood." She traces her lineage to "a cannibalistic royal line" and "she likely has a streak of savagery.....the beat of tom-toms would stir her, for instance. She is apt to be rather indolent, too...."
Fortunately there are no tom-toms within hearing distance of St Anne's. Eberhart creates a menacing enough atmosphere without them.
Entertaining suspense. Nurse Keate is an appealing character. (