While The Patient Slept

Mignon G. Eberhart

“THE FEDERIE HAND IS BORN TO FIT THE CURVE OF A REVOLVER!”

Miss Keate, hired as nurse for paralyzed Jonas Federie, soon had reason to remember that chance-heard remark addressed to lovely March Federie. For at midnight that night Adolph Federie was murdered. Could the slayer have been March, the capable girl who ruled the Federie household with an iron hand? Or Adoiph’s bitter wife? Or Eustace, who prowled the corridors at night? They all hated Adolph, and they all sought something, something that murder had been committed to find – but what?

Before the reign of terror and mystery had been lifted from the dark rooms of Federie House, death threatened the entire household, and only the thickness of a cloth stood between Jonas Federie and the hand of the murderer. Detective Lance O’Leary solves the strangest and most difficult problem of his amazing career in unravelling the sinister story of Federie House.