Shroud for a Nightingale

✍ Scribed by P. D. James

• Book ID: 107852042
• Publisher: Warner Books
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 182 KB
• Series: Adam Dalgliesh 4
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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.

Review

“The reigning mistress of murder…Her vivid, compelling whodunits over almost a quarter of a century have made P. D. James one of the world’s leading crime writers and a worthy successor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.” -- Time

“Marvellously transcends the mystery genre…Few 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

From the Inside Flap

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.