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Shroud for a Nightingale

(1984)

Overview

When a student nurse with a penchant for petty blackmail is lethally poisoned during a routine procedure, Commander Dalgliesh and Inspector Massingham have to discover which, of the many guilty secrets held by the staff and students at Nightingale House, was a strong enough motive for murder.

Cast

Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh
Roy Marsden

as Adam Dalgliesh

Episodes

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March 9, 1984

An arms dealer with a heart problem is too ill to stand trial and taken to a teaching hospital for treatment. Dalglies…

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March 16, 1984

Despite being present during the death of one of the student nurses, Dalgliesh is not asked run the investigation. Fur…

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March 23, 1984

Following the death of a second student nurse, and that of the arms dealer Dettinger, Dalgliesh is put in charge of inv…

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March 30, 1984

Dalgliesh starts to make progress despite the lies and evasions of the people who have been interviewed. Dettinger's f…

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April 6, 1984

As the story reaches its climax, history catches up with the older staff. A blaze due to arson at the summer house rev…