Shroud for a Nightingale

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Simon and Schuster, Sep 11, 2001 - Fiction - 363 pages
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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Contents

Section 1
11
Section 2
32
Section 3
44
Section 4
63
Section 5
81
Section 6
104
Section 7
122
Section 8
130
Section 15
246
Section 16
252
Section 17
264
Section 18
279
Section 19
304
Section 20
316
Section 21
345
Section 22
350

Section 9
150
Section 10
165
Section 11
172
Section 12
188
Section 13
207
Section 14
218
Section 23
358
Section 24
364
Section 25
365
Section 26
366
Section 27
367
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About the author (2001)

P. D. James (1920–2014) was born in Oxford in 1920. She worked in the National Health Service and the Home Office From 1949 to 1968, in both the Police Department and Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy, and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honour for Literature. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991.