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Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #4)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743219600
Edition: 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction
ISBN: 0743219600
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2001-09
Publisher: Touchstone
Release Date: September 04, 2001
Studio: Touchstone
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Editorial Review:
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."
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pleasant
A very pleasant mystery book to read. The story itself is not out of the ordinary, but keeps you guessing until the end and I had fun turning the pages. I am reading the author's books in chronological order and can already see how her writing style and the complexity of the stories improve with each novel. This is a book for anyone who enjoys an English mystery novel.
Rating: - Staged Murder
Adam Dalgliesh, P.D. James' signature detective, is a consummate sleuth, able to use his intelligence to solve the most puzzling of crimes. "Shroud For a Nightingale", only the fourth bok to have featured Dalgliesh, is a bit dated, but it offers a case that Dalgliesh is able to solve but may find impossible to prove. It is a classic closed-scene murder mystery, with the few suspects living together in a place where privacy is closely guarded.
Nightingale House, an old mansion, is ... Read More
Rating: - Another Great Whodunit
Once again PD James proves why she's one of the reigning queens of the classic mystery novel. They're fiercely intelligent, witty, and intricately plotted,not like so many of today's recent entries which mostly involve serial killers with a vendetta. Here, Dangliesh is called to a hospital where two nurses have been murdered,or was it suicide?
Rating: - Aren't Hospitals Unpleasant Enough?
I discovered Ms. James with "A Certain Justice" and have set my task to reading her entire oeuvre. In Shroud she first exhibits her wonderful gift for portraying big egos, a gift that made "A Certain Justice" such a fun read. In this case, the egos are embodied in a surgeon and supervising nurses. Apparently the British nursing profession in the day had a very strict hierarchy--strange to this American reviewer who is used to encountering nurses dressed in pyjamas who are the very soul of casual. ... Read More
Rating: - A cunningly written novel
This novel from the first writing era of James is a masterpiece itself. It starts quite straightforward with two deaths and continues with unceasing suspense. The writer places Dalgliesh very well among the numerous characters of the story, trying to reveal all of their secrets. Interesting substories are being uncoiled as the reader moves forward. The pages whisk fast. You can never be sure about the killer or the motives underneath. Until the very end, the killer is being skillfully hidden by James. ... Read More
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