Impartial Witness - Softcover

Todd, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062015567 ISBN 13: 9780062015563

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2010

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Book by Todd Charles

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Readers who can't get enough of Maisie Dobbs, the intrepid World War I battlefield nurse in Jacqueline Winspear's novels, or Hester Latterly, who saw action in the Crimean War in a series of novels by Anne Perry, are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford. --New York Times Book Review on A DUTY TO THE DEAD

Anyone who cares to loll in early-20th century English villages and mores and follow a plucky heroine as she confronts the stupidity of war will find solace in this old-fashioned mystery. --Kirkus Reviews on A DUTY TO THE DEAD

This is a wonderful new mystery series that will let us see the horrors of World War I through the eyes of Bess Crawford, a battlefield nurse. A Duty to the Dead is a richly realistic depiction of both the era and people who lived through it. --Margaret Maron, Edgar Award Winning author of Death s Half Acre on A DUTY TO THE DEAD

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Serving in the trenches of France during the First World War, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is sent back to England in the early summer of 1917 with a convoy of severely burned men. One of her patients, a young pilot, has clung to a photograph of his wife ever since his plane went down, and Bess sees the photo every time she tends to him. After the patients are transferred to a clinic in Hampshire, Bess is given 48 hours of leave and plans to return to her flat in London to catch up on some much-needed sleep. But at the railway station there, in a mob of troops leaving for the front, Bess catches a glimpse of a familiar face that of the same pilot s wife. She is bidding a very emotional farewell to a soldier.

Back in France days later, Bess picks up an old newspaper with a line drawing of the woman s face on the front page, and a plea from Scotland Yard asking if anyone has seen her. The woman had been murdered the very day Bess saw her at the terminal. Bess asks for leave to go to Scotland Yard to report what she knows. And thus she embarks on the search for a devious and very dangerous killer a search that will put her own life in jeopardy.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0062015567
• ISBN 13: 9780062015563
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352