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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
World War I nurse Bess Crawford promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself and put her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
3) The red door
Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lancashire, England: June, 1920. Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? What did she see before she died? And who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he had never really gone? How is the woman's death linked to his disappearance? And why is Scotland Yard blind to the connection, even when Inspector Ian Rutledge points it out?
Author
Series
Bess Crawford mystery volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex.
Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge volume 14
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
A Bess Crawford mystery volume Book 9
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Standing in the remote windswept moors of Northern England, Coldwell Hall is the perfect place to hide. For the past five years, Kate Furniss has maintained her professional mask so carefully that she almost believes she is the character she has created: Coldwell's respectable housekeeper. It is the summer of 1911 that brings new faces above and below the stairs of Coldwell Hall-including the handsome and mysterious new footman, Jem Arden. Just as...
Author
Series
Bess Crawford mysteries volume 8
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At an aid station in France in October 1918, Bess Crawford, a nurse, encounters an injured, unidentified French lieutenant, who yells in fluent German after being attacked by a fellow patient. Though Bess's matron suggests that the Frenchman is from German-speaking Alsace-Lorraine, Bess isn't so sure. Two weeks later, Bess is shot while in the trenches and is sent to Paris to recuperate, and finds the perfect opportunity to pursue the matter, with...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them--but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 7
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse"--Provided by publisher.
15) The walnut tree
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the horrors she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas, a titled young Englishwoman, is transformed by her experience and leaves her sheltered life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the war coming to a close, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his family learn that the identity of the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker is about to be revealed by a German counterpart, but the family must first solve the mystery of a murdered nurse.
17) The murder stone
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
352p. 25cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
A novel of World War 1 volume 5
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
519 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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