Two men meet to conclude a very private business transaction in the empty store room of an NHS hospital. A patient sees them as they leave and believes she recognises the face of a one-time notorious murderer. But the patient is Miss Amy Tupper, dutifully prowling the ward to exercise her newly repaired varicose veins, and Miss Tupper, a retired actress, is known for the power of her imagination and the relish with which she follows the press reporting of lurid crimes. The store room from which the two men emerged is found ...
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Two men meet to conclude a very private business transaction in the empty store room of an NHS hospital. A patient sees them as they leave and believes she recognises the face of a one-time notorious murderer. But the patient is Miss Amy Tupper, dutifully prowling the ward to exercise her newly repaired varicose veins, and Miss Tupper, a retired actress, is known for the power of her imagination and the relish with which she follows the press reporting of lurid crimes. The store room from which the two men emerged is found, however, to be far from empty. In a cupboard is the strangled body of a young foreign nurse. The police very quickly acquire a prime suspect. But Michael Beddoes, a consultant surgeon at the hospital, is convinced the young pharmacist taken into custody is incapable of murder, and begins asking his own questions. At the same time a local councillor, Gerald Nubb, is feeling his way cautiously but unswervingly towards the exposure of extensive corruption involving the town council and the top heavy bureaucracy of the local Health Service. And of course there's still Miss Tupper, whose idiosyncratic view of the case isn't taken seriously until it's almost too late. Josephine Bell is brilliant at describing and exposing small town graft and the faceless machinations of hospital administration, and into this she has woven an excellent murder story.
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Add this copy of Wolf Wolf to cart. $3.88, fair condition, Sold by Victoria Bookshop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bere Alston, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1979 by Hodder 1979.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st Am. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. Aunt Amy, a retired actress, sees something she is concerned about when she is exercising her legs in the hospital corridor following an operation. Shortly afterwards a young nurse is found strangled inside the room near where Aunt Amy saw two men arguing. The police are inclined to distrust Amy's evidence when she is certain one of the men looked like a famous serial killer.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0802754252. First American Edition. Read once and shelved since new. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings.; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 190 pages.
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Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Good. No dust jacket. Tips lightly bumped. Wear to head and heel of spine. First edition *
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