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Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James · Booklabria

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Shroud for a Nightingale

MysteryMystery & Detective, Traditional

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First published: 1971
Editions: 52 in 7 languages
Series: Adam Dalgliesh

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Mystery
Mystery & Detective, Traditional
England
Murder
Police
Investigation
Set in: England
London
Time: 21st Century
Characters: Adam Dalgliesh
Dalgliesh, Adam

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52 in 7 languages

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English33 German7 Spanish4 French3 All 7 languages

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