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The gothic, closed community, murder mystery involves a nurse who is assigned to the at-home care of a man who recently had a stroke. While he is unconscious, on a dark and stormy night, a murder takes place in his bedroom. With family members and potential heirs confined to the house for several
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as an amateur detective. Regarding other characters, historian Rick Cypert cites effete antagonist
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Cypert, Rick. "Foppish, Effeminate, or "a little too handsome": Coded
Character Descriptions and Masculinity in the Mystery Novels of Mignon G. Eberhart".
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days, additional murders occur while the nurse and a police detective, a friend of hers from a past case, work on solving the case.
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