ANGEL OF DEATH

London, United Kingdom: Quartet London , 1983. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. 3rd Nurse Carmichael title. England/Medical. "Agnes Carmichael, the nurse with a pronounced homicidal approach to problem solving, is back in her third adventure. She is now Nursing Officer in charge of Out Patients, Casualty, the Children's Ward, and Operating Theatres - a job she finds pleasing and a promotion that gratifies her desire for power. And, for the first time in her life, Agnes Carmichael is in love. As with many lonely women, it's hit her hard - how hard, she does not realize. When she first comes across Professor Harold Maitland in the clinic she barely notices his wife, Emily. Later she meets Emily at a party and finds her to be a selfish - although undeniably sophisticated and beautiful - woman. Driving by the Maitlands' house on her way home, she sees an intruder entering the house and manages to scare him off. The Professor is grateful, and Carmichael begins insinuating herself into their livers - after all, she is a nurse, and he is blind, suffering from severe diabetes. All goes well until she is thwarted - and every time Carmichael is thwarted, someone turns up dead..." --Goodreads. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.