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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired...
4) The red door
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a Lancaster woman in the summer of 1920, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge links her demise to the disappearance of a man who was wrongly believed to have gone to serve in World War I.
Author
Series
A Bess Crawford mystery volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris for a Matron at the London headquarters of...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
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
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.
Language
English
Author
Series
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
Bess Crawford mysteries volume 8
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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
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
Series
Language
English
Description
"Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters." -The Sun-Sentinel From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon Brandon's past Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out to clear her father's name, instead makes a horrific discovery that changes everything.
14) A lonely death
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.
15) Wings of fire
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When reclusive war poet Olivia Marlowe and her half-brother Nicholas Cheney die together in their ancestral home on the Cornish coast, it looks like suicide. The grieving relatives gather together to discuss the fate of Barcombe Hall, when another shocking death occurs. Inspector Rutledge, who is still shell-shocked from his experiences in the Great War, is sent from Scotland Yard to investigate. Rutledge is soon convinced that the answers to this...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Harper pbk. [ed.].
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1919, and the 'War to End All Wars' has been won. But there is no peace for Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France shell-shocked and tormented by the ever-present voice of the young Scot he had executed for refusing an order. Escaping into his work to save his sanity, Rutledge investigates the murder of a popular colonel in Warwickshire and his alleged killer, a decorated war hero and close friend...
17) The murder stone
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
352p. 25cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.