num_pages: 368
description: Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh mystery series.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.
language: English
title: Shroud for a Nightingale
titlecomplete: Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)
characters: Adam Dalgliesh
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 25901
places: Heatheringfield, West Midlands, England, England, Sussex, England, Hampshire, England
series: Adam Dalgliesh
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Scribner