Happy Mystery Series Week! To celebrate, we’re challenging your amateur detective skills by playing ‘Clue’ with Mignon G. Eberhart’s Nurse Sarah Keate mystery books. We’ve provided you with the case, a list of suspects, the weapon, and location. Can you solve who committed each murder?
The case: Socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests—the same people who were at the lodge when her father died of “heart failure” exactly five years ago. She intends to find out which one of them murdered him.
Murder weapon: unknown
Location: Sand Hills of Nebraska
Your suspects:
Matil Kingery: socialite, Huber Kingery’s daughter
Lucy Kingery: Sarah Keate’s patient and Matil’s aunt
Jo Paggi: an opera singer
Brunker: the butler
Julian Barre: Huber Kingery’s best friend
Gerald Frawley: vice president of Kingery Trust Company
Lal Killian: friend of Huber Kingery and worked at Kingery Trust Company
Newell Morse: friend of Huber Kingery and worked at Kingery Trust Company
Annette: the cook
Helene Paggi: Jo Paggi’s wife
Terice von Turcum: friend of Huber Kingery, a baroness
The Case: This 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.
Location: Federie House
Weapon: Revolver
The Suspects:
Mr. Federie: Sarah Keate’s patient, bedbound and unconscious from a stroke
March Federie: Mr. Federie’s granddaughter
Eustace Federie: March’s cousin
Grondal: the butler
Deke Lonergan: a friend of Eustace Federie
Adolph Federie: Mr. Federie’s son
Isobel Federie: Adolph’s wife
Elihu Dimuck: an old friend of Mr. Federie
Mittie Frisling: an old friend of the family
Kema: the cook
The case: Set during World War II, nurse Sarah Keate and nurse Drue Cable investigate the suspicious shooting of Drue’s millionaire ex-husband. While he is being treated and lying unconscious, someone in his family household, a gloomy mansion in the remote countryside, is suspected of plotting to kill him.
Location: Berkshire Hills
Weapon: Conrad Brent’s revolver
Suspects:
Drue Cable: a young nurse, once married to Craig Brent
Craig Brent: Conrad Brent’s son and formerly married to Drue Cable
Conrad Brent: Craig Brent’s father and married to Alexia Senour Brent
Alexia Senour Brent: Conrad Brent’s current wife and sister of Nicky Senour
Nicky Senour: Alexia Senour Brent’s brother
Peter Huber: a friend staying at the Brent House
Dr. Chivery: friend of the Brents
Maud Chivery: friend of the Brents
Anna Haub: a maid in the Brent House
Beevens: a butler in the Brent House
The case: When Dr. Harrigan is found murdered in the hotel elevator and his patient, Peter Malady, nowhere to be found, Sarah Keate must uncover the strange story of a body where it shouldn’t be, and no body where it should have been.
Location: Melady Memorial Hospital
Murder weapon: Catlin amputating knife
The Suspects:
Peter Melady: patient of Dr. Harrigan and owner of Melady Drug Company
Ina Harrigan: wife to Dr. Harrigan
Dione Melady: Peter Melady’s daughter and wife to Courtney Melady
Dr. Kunce: head of Melady Memorial Hospital
Lillian Ash: a nurse in Melady Memorial Hospital
Courtney Melady: Peter Melady’s nephew and husband to Dione Melady
Jacob Teuber: an orderly in Melady Memorial Hospital
Kenwood Lad: an architect who was planning a new house for Ina Harrigan
Ellen Brody: a student nurse in Melady Memorial Hospital
Nancy Page: a nurse in Melady Memorial Hospital
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