by JAMES (Author)
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."
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: 1st Scribner Pbk. Fiction Ed
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 24 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0743219600
ISBN 13: 9780743219600
P. D. James is the greatest living mystery writer.
The reigning mistress of murder.