The Nightingale Affair, Mason - B

                       The setting of this novel is 1867 London. Former Inspector Charles Field, on whom Dickens modeled his Inspector Bucket in 'Bleak House' is thrust into a nightmare from the past. A decade and a half earlier, he was sent by Scotland Yard to the Crimea to find the man threatening and killing Florence Nightingale's young nurses. He solves that crime, marries a young nurse and settles in London.  Now, strangulation victims with the same embroidered rose in their mouths pop up in the capital. Fields is beside himself as he investigates.  A man named Jack Stanhope, who was in the Crimea, is now the killer the Yard is trying to find.  Eventually, Field's wife, daughter, and son help him capture Stanhope. Some very nice insights into the the culture and physical structure of 19th century London.