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Authors: Christianna Brand
ISBN-13: 9780786703869, ISBN-10: 0786703865
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
Date Published: February 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted detection puzzles, executed with her characteristic cleverness and gusto. When a patient dies under the anesthetic and later the presiding nurse is murdered, Inspector Cockrill finds himself with six suspectsthree doctors and three nursesand not a discernible motive among them.