num_pages: 287
description: 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.I&gt;The New York Times called Shroud for a Nightingale "mystery at its best."
language: English
title: Shroud For A Nightingale
titlecomplete: Shroud For A Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)
characters: Adam Dalgliesh
genres: British Literature, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 25902
places: Hampshire, England, Sussex, England, Heatheringfield, West Midlands, England, England
series: Adam Dalgliesh
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Penguin