It’s a typical Dalgliesh move, understated and subtle, but he remains aloof. Maybe nobody knows him. He’s recently widowed. He’s a published poet but doesn’t talk about it much (Masterson is incredulous, most of the women are intrigued), and he is a man of few words. Policing and poetry work together for him. He observes and reflects, and he’s challenging to read, although one character thinks she has him figured out. Except Dalgliesh has a core of kindness and the brutality of police work. The all-female community from the top down flutters around him, except grumpy Sister Brumfett, who tells him he is bullying everyone and disturbing the routine. My grandmother left this for my mother to read, and bored, I started it waiting for her in the car. Boredom, too, is the only reason I can give for my finishing it -- I was mesmerized by how entirely uninteresting it was, both the story and the literary style. What is the book about? Strange and scary things happen at the nursing school. Right at the practical lesson, a student dies. Do you know the procedure of anal feeding when a patient cannot eat for some reason? Her skill, like any other, should be worked out by future sisters, and fellow students serve as a model for procedures in turn. The one to whom this has fallen today is injected with another substance instead of warm milk. And a day later - another death.

Nurse Pearce is acting the part of our patient this morning. We have just been going through her history. She is Mrs. Stokes, the fifty-year-old mother of four children, wife of a council refuse collector. She has had a laryngectomy for the treatment of cancer." She turned to a student sitting on her right.

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I am hoping to find someone who taped the Series on VHS in reasonably good quality and can let me borrow a copy. (This would have been in the late 80s - early 90s time frame). At this stage they had a chance of being complete. Since adaptations of mystery novels often suffer from short running times and insufficient consideration of clues, you would think a 5-hr. miniseries format would be ideal for letting the viewer try to solve the mystery herself. Thus it's disappointing when, after investing so much time, SfaN gives up on the "fair play" solve-it-yourself aspect, choosing simply to reveal the answer in a way that no viewer could discover. (And it's not the only Dalgliesh miniseries to do this.) Strangely, SfaN goes on and on for 5 hours but never seems to think about clues any more than a 90 minute movie. Miss Beale thought it odd that the Principal Tutor should find time to visit London to return a library book if staffing problems were so difficult, but she didn't say so. Before breakfast Miss Beale reserved her energy for thought rather than speech. Miss Burrows came round the bed to pour out the second cups. She said: She wasn’t carrying my child, and even if she had been, I shouldn’t have been foolish enough to kill her. Incidentally, what I told you about our previous relationship was naturally in confidence.’ By the way, you'd better start in good time. The road's up just before you strike the Guildford by-pass."

Mε αυτό το μυθιστόρημα, το οποίο ήταν υποψήφιο για βραβείο Edgar Καλύτερου Μυθιστορήματος και τιμήθηκε με το Βραβείο Silver Dagger 1971, η Τζέιμς αποδεικνύει ότι είναι μια γνήσια συγγραφική 'απόγονος' της Άγκαθα Κρίστι. Μόνο που οφείλω να υπογραμμίσω ότι σε αντίθεση με τη Κρίστι, η οποία δίνει μεγάλη σημασία στην αλληλουχία των γεγονότων και στα επιφανειακά χαρακτηριστικά της ανθρώπινης προσωπικότητας, η Τζέιμς γνωρίζει τον τρόπο να διεισδύει , ακόμα, και στις πιο 'σκοτεινές' πλευρές της ανθρώπινης ψυχής.If you want to be stupid and malicious I suppose I can't stop you. But, if I were you, I would stop short of slander." The students...could you look after them please? There's an empty room next door. Keep them together."