Run Scared

by Mignon G. Eberhart

The Lady and the Corpse...

She was sure she had killed him. She had seen him lying on the lonely country road, a little rat-faced man, in a raincoat... An hour later, he had vanished, like a bad dream.

Everyone told her to forget him... But she soon met the man again, when she looked into the still waters of a lake — and saw the entire fabric of her life turned into a waking nightmare...

Her husband was in the fight of his political life. If he won, he might well be the next President. She wanted to be a good wife, she wanted to help his career. But she had two strikes against her. She was convinced she had killed a man. And she was just as sure someone was trying to turn her from a potential First Lady into a corpse....

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

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

[iasa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although marred by a few plotting issues, it was still an even paced rather enjoyable little mystery. Even though the characters are presented as one sided, they come across as multi-dimensional and thankfully they don't explain every move they make to the reader. All in all a quick little read perfect to pass a couple of peaceful hours.