Author: Diane Frazer (pseud. Dorothy Fletcher)
Published: March 1965, ©1965
Publisher: Pocket Books
Illustrator: Harry Bennett
His signature runs along the bottom of the Nurse’s dress.
“Let’s have it,” Dr. Brownlee said to Henry Franklin, a very
influential member of the Board of Trustees of Cranston Hill Hospital, with a
wife who was an important member of the Women’s Auxiliary.
“Well, this
newspaper fellow came to see Clara, and it seems you have someone on your staff
here who shouldn’t be on the staff of any self-respecting hospital.”
“You mean one of our doctors?” Brownlee asked, suddenly alert.
“Not a doctor. A nurse. Geraldine Addams.”
Dr. Brownlee sat up straight. “Geraldine Addams? What about her?”
“I gather that she was a pretty notorious playgirl, that she posed for some
rather startling photographs, that she was even involved in a hit-and-run
accident. You wouldn’t want to retain someone like that on your nursing staff I’m
sure, Lyman. Seems she’s in the children’s ward. It’s not the best of
situations, is it?”
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