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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. At the outbreak of WWI, she volunteers for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Britannic. On one voyage, she promises to a deliver a message from a dying officer to his brother. Once she's able to do so, she's disturbed at the brother's indifferent reception of the message,...
Author
Series
Bess Crawford mystery volume 4.5
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Haunted by what she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas is transformed by her experience and leaves her life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
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
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Troubled Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge wrestles with a startling and dangerous case that reaches far into the past when a false confession from a man who is not who he claims to be leads to a brutal murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
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...
10) Wings of fire
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
11) A lonely death
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011].
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm.
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...
14) The murder stone
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
xi, 352 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The Great War is still raging in the autumn of 1916, when Francesca Hatton's beloved grandfather dies on the family estate in England's isolated Exe Valley. Grieving for the man who raised her, Francesca is stunned to find an unsigned letter among his effects, cursing the Hattons and their descendants. Now a stranger has shown up on her doorstep, accusing her grandfather of being a murderer." "Ex-soldier Richard Leighton blames Francis Hatton for...
Author
Publisher
Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vii, 159 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Now published together for the first time: Charles Todd's absorbing short stories--'The Kidnapping,' 'The Girl on the Beach,' 'Cold Comfort,' and 'The Maharani's Pearls'--featuring everyone's favorite Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge and intrepid battlefield nurse Bess Crawford. These vibrant tales transport readers from the home front in Great Britain where ominous clouds of war will soon lead to the trenches of France, to the bloody front lines...
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