Doom in the Midnight Sun

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Mrs. Boyd's first mystery </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Murder Breaks Trail</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> had an Alaskan background and introduced F. Millard Smyth small-town groceryman with a passion for detective fiction who was forced to turn detective himself. In her second story </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Doom in the Midnight Sun</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> F. Millard is once more in Alaska on a trip to Harding Lake for a few days of quiet in which to consider the possible purchase of a grocery store in Fairbanks.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>But he has no quiet days and no considering time for from the first it is apparent that there are peculiar goings on among the families whose cabins line the lake's shore. There are nocturnal meetings there are mysterious signals and one night there is murder. F. Millard in the absence of the law takes charge and once more finds himself in the unwilling role of sleuth with three small Boy Scouts named Bill as his only assistants.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Eunice Mays Boyd knows the country of which she writes from its sunlit nights to its mosquito nets a country where terror stalks by daylight and there is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Doom in the Midnight Sun</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p><br></p>