The nightingale affair : a novel
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
Status
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Mason
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Mason
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Mystery
FIC Mason
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FIC Mason
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction
MASON
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MASON
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Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction | Mason | On Shelf |
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Mystery | FIC Mason | On Shelf |
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction | MASON | On Shelf |
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Fiction | Mason | On Shelf |
Newburgh Free Library - Popular Adult Fiction | MASON | On Shelf |
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
391 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Sequel to The Darwin Affair.
Description
"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 Turkey¿́¿despite 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 Dickens¿́¿s Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) is sent from England to find the killer among the doctors, military men, journalists, and others swarming Turkey¿́¿s 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" -- Page 2 of cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mason, T. (2023). The nightingale affair: a novel (First Edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mason, Tim, 1950-. 2023. The Nightingale Affair: A Novel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mason, Tim, 1950-. The Nightingale Affair: A Novel Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mason, Tim. The Nightingale Affair: A Novel First Edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
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