''The Glass Slipper'' is a 1938 American mystery novel by

Mignon G. Eberhart Mignon Good Eberhart (July 6, 1899, Lincoln, Nebraska – October 8, 1996, Greenwich, Connecticut) was an American author of mystery novels. She had one of the longest careers (from the 1920s to the 1980s) among major American mystery writers. Ear ...

. Like many of her novels, it features a nurse protagonist and elements of romance. The book was first sold in hardcover in New York by Doubleday, and in London through the Collins Crime Club.

Plot Summary

Rue, a nurse, marries a wealthy Chicago doctor whose wife she had once been attending. Later, a letter is sent to the police suggesting that the first wife was murdered. Then two more murders occur within the household of Dr. Brule Hatterick and his new wife. The first wife's brother and best friend and some of the doctor's partners are suspects. The new wife wonders if she is in danger.

Reception

At the time of its publication the novel was positively reviewed in a number of newspapers, including the ''New York Times,'' whose reviewer noted: “Those who remember the Nurse Keete stories will agree that when Mrs. Eberhart writes of doctors and nurse she is at her best... Not even the Nurse Keete stories are any better than this one.”Isaac Anderson, "New Mystery Stories". ''The New York Times''. Nov. 6, 1938, p. 118.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glass Slipper, The 1938 American novels Collins Crime Club books Novels set in Chicago Novels by Mignon G. Eberhart Doubleday, Doran books