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An Adam Dalgliesh mystery by an award-winning, internationally acclaimed novelist.
Two student nurses lie dead, the great hospital nursing school of Nightingale House is shadowed with terror, and a secret medical world of sex, shame, and scandal is about to be exposed. It is the job of Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to probe even deeper into the macabre mystery and unmask a killer who operates as skillfully as a surgeon -- before the epidemic of evil gets completely out of hand.
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The reigning mistress of murderHer vivid, compelling whodunits over almost a quarter of a century have made P. D. James one of the worlds leading crime writers and a worthy successor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. -- Time
Marvellously transcends the mystery genreFew other mystery novelists can claim such complexity of characterization and density of setting, where every detail seems perfectly realized. -- Toronto Star
P. D. James is a remarkable writer. -- Ruth Rendell
P. D. James is simply a wonderful writer. -- The New York Times
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P. D. James is the author of nearly twenty books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Britain's Home Office, and she has been a magistrate and a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. In 2000, she published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest.
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