Family Fortune
by Mignon Good Eberhart
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On the same night that her father dies, Lucinda Chance discovers a wounded Confederate soldier, and her actions soon split her family's loyalties.Tags
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Mignon G. Eberhart was born on July 6, 1899 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She studied English and history at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Her first novel, Patient in Room 18, was published in 1929. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 50 novels and numerous short stories including While the Patient Slept, House on the Roof, Hasty Wedding, With This show more Ring, Three Days for Emeralds, and Dead Yesterday and Other Stories. She received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1971 and the Agatha Award: Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1994. She died on October 8, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters
- Lucinda Chance; Jeff Chance; Marsh Chance; John Chance; Dolly Chance; Alice Chance (show all 8); Richard Chance; Ceclie
- Important places
- West Virginia, USA
- Important events
- American Civil War
- Dedication
- With thanks for the memory of a soldierly family patriarch who fought the war even after it was ended and he was on the losing side all the rest of his life, and for the old family wills which suggested this novel. With the ... (show all)hope, too, that I have been fair to all.
- First words
- The brothers were quarreling.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But she could hope, she thought resolutely; she could dream.
- Disambiguation notice
- ISBN 0002312255 is for Family Fortune; not One Fearful Yellow Eye. However, Detective Book Club did issue a book including both of these titles along with The Etruscan Smile by Velda Johnston.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PZ3 .E159 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
- 6
