About this title: 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.
"The New York Times" called "Shroud for a Nightingale" "mystery at its best."
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books, New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780446310062ISBN:0446310069
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1982 Warner paperback. NOT EX LIB! Clean pages with light reading wear, barely creased spine, some edgewear with cover chipping, light cover scuffing. 287 p. Glued binding. read more
Description: Good. Spine has some creases. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade B reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Date Published: 1992-11
ISBN-13:9780446313032ISBN:0446313033
Description: Good in None as issued jacket. Different cover illustration. unmarked lightly yellowed pages, several spine creases, nice covers with only light edge wear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Popular Library
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780445003774ISBN:0445003774
Description: Acceptable. 1971 Paperback. Thanks for for looking at our books. We ship fast and we guarentee all books we sell. Murder and medicine made strange bedfellows. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Warner
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780445003774ISBN:0445003774
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. Good+ 0445003774 Spine creases, some cover and edge wear and bookstore stamp inside of front cover. Tanning pages. Murder mystery. (#40806) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sphere
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780722149683ISBN:0722149689
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. Good+ 0722149689 Tight spine, some cover and edge wear and no markings. Tanning pages. "A double killing within the gloomy precincts of the Nightingale Training College for nurses led Inspector Adam Dalgleish into a web of intrigue and murder-revealing the carefully hidden trail. " Mystery. (#42816) read more
By Faith,
Winchester and Limassol, 05, The United Kingdom
"Oh P D James at her best! This novel is set in the mid 70's, in an old fashioned nursing school. As a former nurse (before I found writing!)I can emphathise with the vintage, creepiness of the nursing home. A nurse is brutally and quite horribly murdered and it is up the police led by the brilliant Dalgleish to solve the crime.
Well crafted, good and pacey, very easy to read. A book that I couldn't put down for long. Don't read it at midnight, alone with the wind blowing at your bedroom curtains!
PD James has long been a favourite of mine and will remain so."
"Wow. I like P.D. James better on paper than on BBC. This is a down-to-business mystery. I like the vintage nursing school setting. It's like a grown-up British version of the Cherry Ames and Sue Barton student nurse novels."
"This was really good, I had never read one of the many Adam Dalgliesh mysteries, only P.D. James' miscellaneous books Children of Men and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (which does have Dalgliesh come in later). It was not my stereotype of a mystery novel, which I'm not really sure what I have in mind, but is something that I feel like I wouldn't like. The book is very cerebral, setting up timelines and alibis, so much so that it was a bit hard to keep track. I loved the end though, very exciting, everything just came together so well. Her style is just English I love it. Also how do you say his last name exactly?"
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