Mignon Good 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 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 got the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America. |
Titles and year of publication:
1) The Patient in Room 18 | 1929 |
2) While the Patient Slept | 1930 |
3) The Mystery of Hunting's End | 1930 |
4) From the Dark Stairway | 1931 |
5) Murder by an Aristocrat (UK title: Murder of My Patient [1934]) | 1932 |
6) The Dark Garden (UK title: Death in the Fog [1934]) | 1933 |
7) The White Cockatoo | 1933 |
8) The Cases of Susan Dare (short stories) | 1934 |
9) The House on the Roof | 1935 |
10) Fatal Warning | 1936 |
11) Danger in the Dark (UK title: Hand in Glove [1937]) | 1937 |
12) The Pattern | 1937 |
13) The Glass Slipper | 1938 |
14) Hasty Wedding | 1938 |
15) Brief Return | 1939 |
16) The Chiffon Scarf | 1939 |
17) The Hangman's Whip | 1940 |
18) Speak No Evil | 1941 |
19) With This Ring | 1941 |
20) Wolf in Man's Clothing | 1942 |
21) The Man Next Door | 1943 |
22) Unidentified Woman | 1943 |
23) Escape the Night | 1944 |
24) Wings of Fear | 1945 |
25) Five Passengers from Lisbon | 1946 |
26) The White Dress | 1946 |
27) Another Woman's House | 1947 |
28) House of Storm | 1949 |
29) Five of My Best (short stories) | 1949 |
30) Hunt with the Hounds | 1950 |
31) Never Look Back | 1951 |
32) Deadly is the Diamond (short stories) | 1951 |
33) Dead Man's Plans | 1952 |
34) The Unknown Quantity | 1953 |
35) Man Missing | 1954 |
36) Postmark Murder | 1956 |
37) Another Man's Murder | 1957 |
38) Melora | 1959 |
39) The Crimson Paw (short stories) | 1959 |
40) Jury of One | 1960 |
41) The Cup, the Blade, or the Gun (UK title: The Crime at Honotassa [1962]) | 1961 |
42) Enemy in the House | 1962 |
43) Run Scared | 1963 |
44) Call after Midnight | 1964 |
45) R.S.V.P. Murder | 1965 |
46) Witness at Large | 1966 |
47) Woman on the Roof | 1968 |
48) Message from Hong Kong | 1969 |
49) El Rancho Rio | 1970 |
50) Two Little Rich Girls | 1972 |
51) The House by the Sea | 1972 |
52) Murder in Waiting | 1973 |
53) Danger Money | 1975 |
54) Family Fortune | 1976 |
55) Nine O'Clock Tide | 1976 |
56) The Bayou Road | 1979 |
57) Casa Madrone | 1980 |
58) Family Affair | 1981 |
59) Next of Kin | 1982 |
60) The Patient in Cabin C | 1983 |
61) Alpine Condo Crossfire | 1984 |
62) A Fighting Chance | 1986 |
63) Three Days for Emeralds | 1988 |