{"product_id":"the-nightingale-affair-paperback","title":"The Nightingale Affair - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Mason\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this twisty Victorian detective thriller from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Darwin Affair\u003c\/i\u003e, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale's nurses in Crimea and women in London. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Case closed. Or is it? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. Populated by real figures of the day, from Benjamin Disraeli to novelist Wilkie Collins to, of course, Florence Nightingale herself, and steeped in historical details of 1860s London, \u003ci\u003e The Nightingale Affair \u003c\/i\u003eplays out against a backdrop of a rapidly changing society. Most of all, it is a pure reading delight, offering shocks, unforgettably vivid scenes, and surprising twists.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Mason\u003c\/b\u003e (1950-2023) is a playwright whose work has been produced in New York City, throughout the United States, and around the world. Among the awards he has received are a Kennedy Center Award, the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Rockefeller Foundation grant. In addition to his dramatic plays, he wrote the book for \u003ci\u003eDr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical\u003c\/i\u003e, which had two seasons on Broadway and tours nationally every year. He is the author of the young adult novel \u003ci\u003eThe Last Synapsid\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Darwin Affair \u003c\/i\u003ewas his first adult novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749191549216,"sku":"9781643756288","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c7d09bb88f3964859481308bd71abf6e.webp?v=1779926022","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-nightingale-affair-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}