Hilda Wade, a nurse at St. Nathaniel’s Hospital, can read people’s characters and predict what they will do. Told by a young doctor who works beside her, the episodes follow her quiet campaign to clear her father’s name against the brilliant, ruthless Professor Sebastian, a pursuit that takes her across the world to southern Africa.
Allen’s last novel, finished by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, and an early woman detective story. Download the free EPUB.