- Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Fiction in English
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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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 9881
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Otava, Debolsillo, Sphere Books
- Editions
- 53
- Language
- Spanish, English, German, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9783499120626
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“On the morning of the first murder Miss Muriel Beale, Inspector of Nurse Training Schools to the General Nursing Council, stirred into wakefulness soon after 6 o'clock and into a sluggish early morning awareness that it was Monday, 12th January, and the day of the John Carpendar Hospital inspection.”
An English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.
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