Description:
San Francisco is abuzz when it learns that Julia Paget, the rich, reclusive mistress of Dune House, is conducting a search for her long-lost heir.
Brief description: Eunice Mays Boyd (1901-1971) Eunice was an award-winning mystery writer during the Golden Age of Agatha Christie. Her books are intelligent, cozy whodunnit murder mysteries with many twists and turns. She loved to read mysteries and prided herself in identifying the murderer well before the end. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1924, she moved to Alaska where she lived for 12 years. Circa 1940, she returned to Berkeley where she wrote the Alaska-based F. Millard Smyth mystery series: MURDER BREAKS TRAIL (1943), DOOM IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN (1943), and MURDER WEARS MUKLUKS (1945). These will be republished in 2022. A fourth book in the series, ONE PAW WAS RED will be forthcoming (2022/2023). She co-authored THE MARBLE FOREST that was made into the movie "Macabre" (1958). Her new cozy murder mysteries are: DUNE HOUSE (11/23/2021), SLAY BELLS (12/7/21) and A VACATION TO KILL FOR (2022). These books are published with her goddaughter, Elizabeth Reed Aden. DUNE HOUSE and SLAY BELLS are set in San Francisco, California and A VACATION TO KILL FOR is set primarily in Carcassonne, France.
Review Quotes:
"No scientific sleuthing this, but a blending of clues, coincidences and concentration...A better than most brain workout."-Kirkus Reviews
"As pretty, suspenseful and smoothly written a mystery as I've read in a long time." -Chicago Sun
"... well-tangled murder plot... Good entertainment." -New York Herald Tribune
"An exceptional who-done-it, which won honorable mention in the latest Mary Roberts Rinehart mystery novel contest, has been skillfully built into a book that is hard to put down until the last page" -Philadelphia Evening Bulletin