Sarah Keate
Sarah Keate is a fictional character, the protagonist in a series of medical mystery novels by American author Mignon G. Eberhart. Keate, a nurse with a talent for solving crimes, was introduced in Eberhart's debut novel, "The Patient in Room 18" (1929), and later appeared in "While the Patient Slept" (1930); "The Mystery of Hunting's End" (1930); "From This Dark Stairway" (1931); "Murder by an Aristocrat" (1932) (also published in 1934 as "Murder of my Patient"); "Wolf in Man's Clothing" (1942); and "Man Missing" (1954), as well as in several short stories. Five of the seven novels and one of the stories were turned into movies in the 1930s.

Eberhardt was one of the most popular American mystery writers, producing 59 books between 1929 and 1988. Sarah Keate was one of her most famous characters. In fact, Keate proved to be Eberhart's only series sleuth, as the prolific author switched in the mid-1930s to writing mostly standalone novels, with no recurring characters. After that, she brought back Keate only rarely. (Eberhart, however, continued to use medical settings and characters in the medical profession in her fiction.)

Sarah Keate is a single nurse, middle-aged or perhaps younger, who sometimes works in hospitals and sometimes in the homes of patients. In some of the stories, she works with detective Lance O'Leary. As an amateur sleuth, Keate gets involved in situations that are "closed community" mysteries, with a finite number of potential suspects. Author Ron Backer has observed that "Wherever she is employed, murders seem to occur ... she is a shrewd observer of the suspects and the evidence."
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