Annal:1971 Dagger Award for Crime Novel
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Results of the Dagger Award in the year 1971. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Shroud for a Nightingale: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- 1971 Silver Dagger
- Score: 8.21
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.
