03119cam a2200481 i 4500 847459763 TxAuBib 20230616120000.0 221208s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022057989 9781643750392 hardcover 1643750399 hardcover (OCoLC)1345218186 TxAuBib rda Mason, Timothy, 1950- The Nightingale affair : a novel / Tim Mason. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023. ©2023. 391 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier [Inspector Charles Field ; 2 Series information from book jacket/publisher's website. Sequel to: The Darwin Affair. "Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer targeting Florence Nightingale's nurses in Crimea and women in London"-- Provided by publisher. Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it the legendary Beast of the Crimean, or someone closer to home? In 1855, Britain and France are fighting to keep the Russians from snatching the Crimean Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, and Nightingale, a wealthy young society woman, has made it her mission to improve the wretched conditions in the British military hospitals in Turkey--despite fierce objections from the male doctors around her. When young women start turning up dead, their mouths sewn shut with embroidered fabric roses, Inspector Charles Field (the real-life inspiration for Charles Dickens's Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) is sent from England to find the killer among the doctors, military men, journalists, and others swarming Turkey's famous Barrack Hospital. Here Field meets both the famous Nightingale as well as Nurse Jane Rolly, the woman who will become his wife, and as he races to protect them, the prime suspect takes his own life. Case closed. Or is it? Twelve years later, back in London, amid the turmoil surrounding the expansion of voting rights, women again start turning up dead, their mouths covered by that telltale embroidered rose. Did Field suspect the wrong man before, or is he dealing with a deviant copycat? Either way, he must race against time to stop the killer before more bodies are discovered, and before his own family gets pulled into danger. 20230616. Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Fiction. Serial murderers Fiction. Crimean War, 1853-1856 Fiction. Nurses Death Fiction. Stalking Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. London (England) History 1800-1950 Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. Mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) [Inspector Charles Field ; 2.