Nine O'Clock Tide

by Mignon G. Eberhart

Nine O'Clock Tide by Mignon G. Eberhart in Hardcover.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

Hardcover

First published December 31, 1977

About the author

Mignon Good (1899-1996) was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. She studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1917 to 1920. In 1923 she married Alanson C. Eberhart, a civil engineer. After working as a freelance journalist, she decided to become a full-time writer. In 1929 her first crime novel was published featuring 'Sarah Keate', a nurse and 'Lance O'Leary', a police detective. This couple appeared in another four novels. In the Forties, she and her husband divorced. She married John Hazen Perry in 1946 but two years later she divorced him and remarried her first husband. Over the next forty years she wrote a novel nearly every year. In 1971 she won the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America. She also wrote many short stories featuring banker/amateur sleuth James Wickwire (who could be considered a precursor to Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher) and mystery writer/amateur sleuth Susan Dare.

Reviews

[Antonella Imperiali · Rating 2 out of 5]

Piuttosto banale, per non dire insipido, con personaggi superficiali e poco simpatici (per carattere e per descrizione) che tolgono spessore alla storia. Scrittura elementare, con continue ripetizioni, quindi alla fine: noiosa. Molto teatrale sotto diversi aspetti: situazioni, rivelazioni e dialoghi sembrano scritti per un soggetto destinato ad una rappresentazione di second’ordine.
Questa volta la Eberhart mi ha delusa: due stelle regalate.


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[Spiegel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do meu registro do Bookcrossing de 2007: Um milionário cai dum terraço com um monte de gente em volta sem quem ninguém note. A polícia desconfia da esposa (que é a mocinha da trama). Mas o leitor logo nota que ela não é esperta o suficiente para matar alguém. É impressionante quantas vezes o assasssino entra na casa antes que alguém pense em trocar as fechaduras.

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Our heroine married the wrong guy at age 20, and now he has mysteriously died three years later. She has a teenage brother who is always borrowing money, and a widowed aunt who apparently never had a job. This thriller makes the patriarchy look bad, and it makes servants and friends look like killers.

[John Hanscom · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is a very pedestrian mystery to begin with, it is about 50 years old and shows its age, and any book which talks so much at the end to explain the mystery is not well written.