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Hailed as "mystery at its best" by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James's Adam Dalgliesh mystery series. The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.
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Shroud for a Nightingale, Phyllis Dorothy James
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- Released
- 2001
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0743219600
- ISBN13
- 9780743219600
- Series
- Adam Dalgliesh
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Murders, Detective Fiction, British Literature, England, Detective, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Investigation, Boarding School, Adapted into Series, TV Series & Shows, Dark Academia, Nurses, Girls' School, Forgotten Past
- First published
- 1973
- Original title
- Shroud for a nightingale
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- Hailed as "mystery at its best" by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James's Adam Dalgliesh mystery series. The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.