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Shroud for a Nightingale is a 1971 detective novel by English writer P. D. James, part of her Adam Dalgliesh series. Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate the death of two student nurses at the hospital nursing school of Nightingale House.
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- 1971
Complete summary of P. D. James' Shroud for a Nightingale. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Shroud for a Nightingale.
Apr 17, 2024 · Shroud for a Nightingale. 1984 - United Kingdom. Miss Muriel Beale, the inspector from the General Nursing Council, arrives at Nightingale House, a formidable red-brick Victorian building. Her purpose is to observe the third-year nursing students during a teaching session.
Nov 1, 2021 · This latest adaptation tackles three of the novels by the late P. D. James — “Shroud for a Nightingale,” “The Black Tower,” and “A Taste for Death.” You don’t just see the everyday, the banal, the human beings running this little planet, thinking everything they do matters and has meaning.
- Janet Mullany
Filmed on location in Norfolk, Dalgliesh’s murder inquiries took him this time to the bed of a dying patient at the John Carpendar Hospital and to sombre Nightingale House, the adjoining training wing and young nurses’ home where suddenly the risk of death seemed greater than on any ward.
Jun 17, 2021 · Shroud for a Nightingale, published in 1971, was the fourth crime novel by P.D. James, the fourth of a series centered on Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh that would eventually total 14. It was much better than the three previous books — Cover Her Face.
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Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh** is sent to uncover the circumstances behind a death by poisoning of a student nurse at the Nightingale (no relation to Florence) House student nursing facility. A previous poisoning death at the facility had been unsolved by local police.
