Death in the Fog

by Mignon G. Eberhart

Book Overview

Fog and sleet make driving hazardous in the Chicago traffic. When Katie Warren momentarily stops her car on Michigan Boulevard, she hears a shrouded voice say, "I won't eat grape hair, nor yet glocks." The image of grape hair is sinister enough to stick in Katie's mind. Steering through bad weather, she eventually reaches Aunt Mina's gloomy mansion--and then something terrible happens.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803267304
• ISBN13: 9780803267305
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A superb vintage mystery

Reviewing this book, the New York Times said "From the first page to the last, this story is pervaded by the atmosphere of horror and suspense that invariably marks the work of Mignon G. Eberhart." The Times had it right. There's plenty of horror and suspense in "Death in the Fog," and plenty too of the atmosphere of the Depression-era screwball comedy; if Hollywood were casting this in 1933, the principal roles would have gone to Carole Lombard, William Powell, Gene Raymond, Marie Dressler, Helen Broderick, and Eric Blore. Anyone with a yen for that 30s atmosphere and with a fondness for Chicago will find "Death in the Fog" irresistible. Compared to "The House on the Roof" and "Fair Warning," the pacing is better and the heroine more compelling; this may be Eberhart's best work from the 1930s.