num_pages: 336
description: On a blustery February day Sarah Keate arrives at a gloomy mansion to nurse old Adolph Federie, bedbound after a stroke. Meeting the patient sets off an alarm inside her, but fleeing the house is impossible. The redoubtable red-haired nurse is stuck there with a strange coterie and a black cat named Genevieve. Originally published in 1930, a year after her debut mystery novel The Patient in Room 18, While the Patient Slept strengthened Mignon G. Eberhart's hold on fame.
language: English
title: While the Patient Slept
titlecomplete: While the Patient Slept (Sarah Keate, #2)
genres: Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Gothic, Golden Age Mystery
ratings_count: 98
places: Midwestern
series: Sarah Keate
publisher: University of Nebraska Press