Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh #4)
P.D. James
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
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· 26 ratings · 403 pages · Published: 09 Apr 1971
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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