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The Nightingale affair : a novel / Tim Mason.
"Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer targeting Florence Nightingale's nurses in Crimea and women in London"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781643750392 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 391 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
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| Subject: | Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Nurses > Crimes against > Fiction. Serial murderers > Fiction. Women > Crimes against > Fiction. London (England) > History > 1800-1950 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Mason | 31681010323467 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Twelve years after the death of the serial killer he believed was terrorizing Florence Nightingale and her nurses in Crimea in 1855, Inspector Charles Field discovers a victim with the killerâs signature embroidered rose, and must figure out heâs dealing with a copycatâor something far worseâbefore itâs too late. - Baker & Taylor
"Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer targeting Florence Nightingale's nurses in Crimea and women in London"-- - Grand Central Pub
In this twisty Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingaleâs nurses in Crimea and women in London.Â
Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it the legendary Beast of the Crimean, or someone closer to home? In 1855, Britain and France are fighting to keep the Russians from snatching the Crimean Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, and Nightingale, a wealthy young society woman, has made it her mission to improve the wretched conditions in the British military hospitals in Turkeyâdespite fierce objections from the male doctors around her. When young women start turning up dead, their mouths sewn shut with embroidered fabric roses, Inspector Charles Field (the real-life inspiration for Charles Dickensâs Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) is sent from England to find the killer among the doctors, military men, journalists, and others swarming Turkeyâs famous Barrack Hospital. Here Field meets both the famous Nightingale as well as Nurse Jane Rolly, the woman who will become his wife, and as he races to protect them, the prime suspect takes his own life.
Case closed. Or is it?
Twelve years later, back in London, amid the turmoil surrounding the expansion of voting rights, women again start turning up dead, their mouths covered by that telltale embroidered rose. Did Field suspect the wrong man before, or is he dealing with a deviant copycat? Either way, he must race against time to stop the killer before more bodies are discovered, and before his own family gets pulled into danger. Populated by real figures of the day, from Benjamin Disraeli to novelist Wilkie Collins to, of course, Florence Nightingale herself, and steeped in historical details of 1860s London, The Nightingale Affair plays out against a backdrop of a rapidly changing society. Most of all, it is a pure reading delight, offering shocks, unforgettably vivid scenes, and surprising twists.
