Shroud for a Nightingale (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery)

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CAST = 1 stars: Absolutely massive, first of all, and one of the novels 2 major downfalls. We're introduced to Miss Muriel Beale, and Inspector Nurse on her way to an inspection, and her roommate Miss Angela Burrows, a Principal Tutor in a London teaching hospital. They disappear until the final chapter. It's sorta cheap that this appearance of 2 ladies living together is really a preview of, well, a number of nurse-nurse relationships. Supposedly, they all have 'boyfriends', so we learn that's what they called them at one time. There is Mary Taylor, Matron at John Gardener's Hospital (SHE has a BIG SECRET and you know what it is). Hilda Rolfe (BIG SECRET!) is the Principal Tutor, Mr. Stephen Courtney-Briggs (well, one character as straight as they come, and sadly to Briggs he is surrounded by pretty young gals with BIG SECRETS) the Senior Surgeon, Sister Mavis Gearing a teacher at said hospital. There are 7 students in an opening training class, plus more in bed with the 'flu'. There is Miss Collins, the housekeeper. Chairman Sir Marcus Cohen is in Isreal and why he is even mentioned is beyond me. Same for Alderman Kealy. And that's not even half the cast. Few authors outside of historical non-fiction need this many people to tell a story. (unless you are James Michenor, natch.) And things like "...that high-handed bitch of a Matron" are the kind of lines encountered often. Did I mention Sister Bum? She has MORE THAN ONE SECRET! (People with this name usually do.) Narcissistic" Matt Rife Faces More Controversy After Assuming People Hate Him Because They’re "Jealous" In Resurfaced Clip Now suppose we introduce ourselves," she said encouragingly. "My name is Miss Muriel Beale. There's no need to tell you I'm a G.N.C. Inspector. I know some of your names but I am not really sure who is who." Stephen Colbert Forced To Cancel 'The Late Show' This Week After Undergoing Surgery For Ruptured Appendix Jenna Bush Hager Reveals To Hoda Kotb That Her Daughter Asked Her Husband Why He Was "Lying" When He Said She "Never Looked Better"

Miss Burrows frequently terrified her own students, not to mention most of her colleagues on the teaching staff, but would have been amazed to be told it. Miss Beale asked: The View's Sunny Hostin Suggests Trump Is Using Racist "Dog Whistles" When He Confuses Biden And Obama: "That's What's Happening" Phyllis Dorothy James, known as Baroness James of Holland Park, is not accidentally called the modern Agatha Christie. The total circulation of her books is more than sixty million copies, and their end-to-end character, detective-poet Adam Dalgliesh, is rightfully among the most beloved book detectives. I'm meeting him for the first time and I admit I'm fascinated.Real Housewives Of Potomac' Star Ashley Darby Isn't Mad That Sonja Morgan Stole Her Owen Wilson Thunder At BravoCon: She Knew "His Fetishes" Mε αυτό το μυθιστόρημα, το οποίο ήταν υποψήφιο για βραβείο Edgar Καλύτερου Μυθιστορήματος και τιμήθηκε με το Βραβείο Silver Dagger 1971, η Τζέιμς αποδεικνύει ότι είναι μια γνήσια συγγραφική 'απόγονος' της Άγκαθα Κρίστι. Μόνο που οφείλω να υπογραμμίσω ότι σε αντίθεση με τη Κρίστι, η οποία δίνει μεγάλη σημασία στην αλληλουχία των γεγονότων και στα επιφανειακά χαρακτηριστικά της ανθρώπινης προσωπικότητας, η Τζέιμς γνωρίζει τον τρόπο να διεισδύει , ακόμα, και στις πιο 'σκοτεινές' πλευρές της ανθρώπινης ψυχής.

James is a peerless creator of atmosphere. She herself has always claimed that the first thing that comes to her when embarking upon a new novel is the setting. Undoubtedly, Nightingale House, the setting for most of the events in this book, singularly inappropriate for a nursing college, is almost as vividly described as any of the characters. It is a dark, nasty house, an evil house, where crimes of abuse, neglect and death had previously taken place. The final scene, when the house is finally demolished, is a masterpiece of descriptive writing which conveys so much more than just a sense of place. Well you can, Miss." The porter's tone implied that only the wilfully obstinate would try, and he settled himself against the car door as if to deliver confidential and complicated directions. They proved, however, remarkably simple. Nightingale House was in the hospital grounds at the rear of the new out-patient department. But we can't leave her here, not like this!" Miss Gearing was almost weeping in protest. The surgeon glared at her. A nursing school inspection ends horribly with the death of a student during a demonstration of intra-gastric feeding tubes. This gruesome beginning is compounded with a second student death, and the local police are exchanged for the Yard’s Inspector Adam Dalgliesh whose implacable determination to get at the truth is welcomed by the nursing staff with varying degrees of coolness.

If you want to be stupid and malicious I suppose I can't stop you. But, if I were you, I would stop short of slander." This is an intricately woven story of power and the power of forgiveness - or not, as the case may be. Involving medical - and personal - politics in the late 1960s and a bit of recent British history, the main focus is upon five increasingly interesting young women and their teachers, the nursing Sisters. Each Sister is very clearly presented and followed through the story, along with most of the students as well. James has a facility for showing us the workings of people's minds and their interactions with others. Here she uses that approach in a lot of detail but it never becomes quite slow - the information given is always pertinent, always at least "curious..." if not always immediately easy to understand where it falls within the plot. Tiffany Haddish Plans To "Get Help" After Her Most Recent DUI Arrest, Her Second In Less Than 2 Years: "This Will Never Happen Again" Granted this book is older than me, so the dated stereotypes and gender roles within it partially lose their sting. I tried to read it that way, in its historical place as a very psychologically outdated book (as I do with Agatha Christie for example and still derive some enjoyment) but it still rankled even so.