Shroud for a Nightingale (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery)

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Five pairs of eyes gazed at her with startled incomprehension. But the efficient student -- as Miss Beale still thought of her -- quietly identified them. Taika Waititi Admits He Directed ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Because He Was “Poor” And Thought “This Would Be A Great Opportunity To Feed These Children” Matt Rife Goes Viral Again For Resurfaced 'Wild 'N Out' Joke That Showed Him Grabbing Zendaya's Face Without Her Consent: "Keep Your Hands Off Her!" Shroud is a great caper, written in the 70s. I think it's aged extremely well; in fact, I think the whole plot and setting is made all the more creepy and ominous by the somewhat antiquated medical procedures that figure prominently in the plot. I defy anyone to come up with something inherently scarier than a British nursing school in the 70s where all the nurses where classic nurse uniforms, the school itself is something of a gothic mansion, and even relatively routine medical procedures like inserting a feeding tube take on an intensely macabre character. Good times. Anyone is James is portrayed as weak, ineffectual and pathetic unless they manage to be the victorious (and sometimes cruel) individual. Dalgliesh pursues his version of law with a doggedness, as though he is somehow heroic per se and the lives destroyed are collateral damage. I realise any detective story has this problem somewhere close to the heart of it, and I am never completely satisfied by any authors attempt to deal with it, but James paints an impartial, objective law-man that disregards even his own humanity in the pursuit but manages to sneer at anyone who points this out.

Opening Shot: On a windy night at a nursing school, one of the students wakes up screaming when her alarm goes off. The ending was really good. I wasn't expecting it and I liked how in the end Dalgliesh was right, but you wonder at the cost of him being right and unmovable.

Sleeper Star: Helen Aluko does an effective job as Nurse Christine Dakers, but by midway through the mystery’s second half, her involvement is so thoroughly debunked that the character is hardly even a factor by the end of the episode. How 'The Buccaneers' Crafted Josie Totah and Mia Threapleton’s "Joyful" Queer Romance: "Never Even a Discussion" By the way, you'd better start in good time. The road's up just before you strike the Guildford by-pass." 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.

But here at last was the signpost. The road to the John Carpendar Hospital led upward from the High Street between a broad avenue of trees. To the left was a high stone wall which bounded the hospital grounds. Well you can, Miss." The porter's tone implied that only the wilfully obstinate would try, and he settled himself against the car door as if to deliver confidential and complicated directions. They proved, however, remarkably simple. Nightingale House was in the hospital grounds at the rear of the new out-patient department. Inspector Dalgliesh and DS Charles Masterson (Jeremy Irvine) discover that a corrosive substance was pumped into her with a bottle of disinfectant going missing.Parting Shot: As the mystery is solved and the killer arrested, Dalgliesh looks up at the foreboding school building as he speeds away in his roadster. Robert De Niro Slams Apple And Gotham Awards For Censoring His Anti-Trump Remarks: "How Dare They Do That" So at best the plot is a sort of maypole dance with Dalgliesh as the maypole, the focus of female passive-receptive desire (how many times does a female character in a PD James novel irrelevantly notice that the aging Dalgliesh is "handsome" or "attractive"? Other males are too arrogant and abusive to compare to him. Females are clinging, toxic and weak but seen through a victim-blaming lens and males get away with their abusive attitudes and are only very indulgently even judged by the narration. All relationships are in this novel invariably either casual and superficial or toxic, intimacy is a form of imprisonment in every single situation as far as I can see.

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