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From Publishers Weekly
Turn - of - the - century activist Nell Bray (introduced in Sister Beneath the Sheet ) turns from the suffrage movement to campaign against WW I in this exhilarating mystery. Her friend Jenny Chesney asks her to come to the small auxiliary hospital in Wales where Jenny works with Dr. Julius Stroud, who is using Sigmund Freud's new techniques to help soldiers suffering from shell shock. Jenny wants Nell to help stop the efforts of rabid war supporter Monica Minter, who believes the hospital should be closed and its "coddled" patients sent back to the front. When Nell arrives she speculates about a shot that was fired into the room occupied by two soldiers, hitting neither one. Then she finds the body of one of the men, shot through the head and draped over the barbed-wire fence surrounding the hospital. While Stroud deems the death a suicide, Nell disagrees, and tries to determine the truth despite the doctor's wish to avoid notoriety, which might lead to the hospital's closing. A harrowing drive in an automobile takes plucky Nell to a final confrontation in a quarry. Linscott deftly combines period detail and psychological elements in a suspenseful plot.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
YA-- Nellie Bray, amateur detective and ardent suffragette, is reluctantly drawn into investigating the murderous happenings at a World War I military hospital in Wales. As in her earlier adventure, Sister Beneath the Sheet (St. Martin's Pr., 1991), Nellie tackles the problem with guts and humor and proceeds at breakneck speed to upset the establishment, the military, and conventional society. Linscott presents a motley crew of suspects, including an ardently patriotic woman intent on sabotage, one food-loving soldier obsessed with sausages and another enamored of grenades and guns kept hidden under his bed, and a young man determined to join the communist revolution by bicycling to Moscow. In a true cliff hanger, Nellie solves the crime, sorts out the wounded and war-weary personnel, and sends a brigadier general into retreat. Fans of mysteries with unusual settings, strong female detectives, and a historical bent will enjoy this one.
- Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School Library, Upper Marlboro, MD
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Turn - of - the - century activist Nell Bray (introduced in Sister Beneath the Sheet ) turns from the suffrage movement to campaign against WW I in this exhilarating mystery. Her friend Jenny Chesney asks her to come to the small auxiliary hospital in Wales where Jenny works with Dr. Julius Stroud, who is using Sigmund Freud's new techniques to help soldiers suffering from shell shock. Jenny wants Nell to help stop the efforts of rabid war supporter Monica Minter, who believes the hospital should be closed and its "coddled" patients sent back to the front. When Nell arrives she speculates about a shot that was fired into the room occupied by two soldiers, hitting neither one. Then she finds the body of one of the men, shot through the head and draped over the barbed-wire fence surrounding the hospital. While Stroud deems the death a suicide, Nell disagrees, and tries to determine the truth despite the doctor's wish to avoid notoriety, which might lead to the hospital's closing. A harrowing drive in an automobile takes plucky Nell to a final confrontation in a quarry. Linscott deftly combines period detail and psychological elements in a suspenseful plot.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
YA-- Nellie Bray, amateur detective and ardent suffragette, is reluctantly drawn into investigating the murderous happenings at a World War I military hospital in Wales. As in her earlier adventure, Sister Beneath the Sheet (St. Martin's Pr., 1991), Nellie tackles the problem with guts and humor and proceeds at breakneck speed to upset the establishment, the military, and conventional society. Linscott presents a motley crew of suspects, including an ardently patriotic woman intent on sabotage, one food-loving soldier obsessed with sausages and another enamored of grenades and guns kept hidden under his bed, and a young man determined to join the communist revolution by bicycling to Moscow. In a true cliff hanger, Nellie solves the crime, sorts out the wounded and war-weary personnel, and sends a brigadier general into retreat. Fans of mysteries with unusual settings, strong female detectives, and a historical bent will enjoy this one.
- Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School Library, Upper Marlboro, MD
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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