The great, gloomy Victorian edifice of the Nightingale House Training School was certainly the perfect setting. One of the nurses had died during routine clinical practice. Nurse number two, who always left a nightcap at her bedside while soaking in the bath, had made life easy for the murderer. If murder it was. As rumours spread like a stealthy virus, Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates a poisonous litte case of blackmail . . .
