Miss Pinkerton: Adventures of a Nurse Detective (Hilda Adams #1-4)
Book Details
| Title: | Miss Pinkerton: Adventures of a Nurse Detective (Hilda Adams #1-4) | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1959 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Rinehart & Company Inc. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, mystery, short stories, thriller, film/TV adaptation | ||||||||||
| Description: | Hilda Adams was one of the earliest nurse detectives. Follow are #1 to #4.
"The Buckled Bag"--Recruited by a county detective, Hilda nurses the distraught mother of a twenty-year-old woman who mysteriously vanished. Then she just as mysteriously reappears, with a not-quite-believable story about her absence.
"Locked Doors"--Hilda is employed to care for two young boys in a home shrouded by fear--a place from which the previous nurse fled in nervous terror. Admonished to keep the boys safe from danger, Hilda must discover just what the danger is.
"Miss Pinkerton"--When a young ne'er-do-well with hefty life insurance policies is found shot to death, Hilda and the police untangle a perplexing case that seems to show earmarks of both murder and suicide.
"Haunted Lady"--A rich elderly woman enlists Hilda as a protector against an unknown person who is terrorizing her. Her stories of strange occurrences seem hard to believe--until Hilda finds the lady with a knife in her chest on [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 948 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 480  |
Author Bio for Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876–September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the source of "the butler did it" plot device in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work.
—Wikipedia
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