WHILE THE PATIENT SLEPT by Mignon G. Eberhart Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran Company, Inc., 1930. First edition (stated). Rear upper corner tip stubbed, scattered white streaks and specks to the front cover (paint?), several faint stains to the rear cover, else a very good, solid and internally clean copy; lacking the dust jacket. "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."--Fantastic Fiction. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!