While the Patient Slept

"While the Patient Slept" is a chilling Golden Age mystery that features the introduction of one of fiction's most enduring amateur sleuths, Nurse Sarah Keate. Set within the somber and claustrophobic walls of the Federie mansion, the story follows Nurse Keate as she is summoned to care for an elderly patriarch lying in a profound coma. As the household waits for the inevitable, the heavy atmosphere of the isolated estate grows increasingly tense.

The silence of the sickroom is shattered whe...