01590cam a2200313 4500 758665230 TxAuBib 20110212120000.0 090105s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008055909 9780061791765 $24.99 0061791768 $24.99 (OCoLC)297530044 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP ZS3 GO3 WIQ VP@ FN4 CDX BWX DLC TxGR TxAuBib Todd, Charles. A duty to the dead [Book] / Charles Todd. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, 2009. 329 p. ; 24 cm. Bess Crawford mystery Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. At the outbreak of WWI, she volunteers for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Britannic. On one voyage, she promises to a deliver a message from a dying officer to his brother. Once she's able to do so, she's disturbed at the brother's indifferent reception of the message, and when an unexpected turn of events provides her with an opportunity to stay with the family for a short time, she takes it. 20110212. Nurses England Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 England Fiction. Mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Bess Crawford mystery. RV8