The Patient at Peacocks Hall [Large Print]

By Margery Allingham

Book Overview

A young woman doctor, struggling to save the life of her rival, is threatened by a cunning madman -- who has been driven to madness by the very woman that Dr. Anne Fowler is caring for!

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0783889666
• ISBN13: 9780783889665
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

The Patient at Peacocks Hall

Summoned to see a mysterious patient, Dr. Ann Fowler is astonished to find it is Francia Forde, the glamorous film star who stole her fiance ten years ago. But why is she going about under an assumed name, and what is she doing in Mapleford? At first she appears to be suffering only from acute alcoholism, but when her condition deteriorates dramatically, it soon becomes clear that she has been poisoned - with a bottl of the doctor's own tablets. Placed in an impossible position, Dr. Fowler must decide whether to let her career be ruined - or connive in murder... --- from book's back cover