Cambridge English Readers Level 5 Upper Intermediate

McGiffin, Janet

ISBN 10: 0521536626 ISBN 13: 9780521536622

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. When the wife of a prominent surgeon dies suddenly in the hospital emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, USA, Dr Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.

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Book Description

When the wife of a prominent surgeon dies suddenly in the hospital emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, USA, Dr Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.

From Publishers Weekly

In her debut novel, McGiffin turns a pair of appealing sleuths loose on the medical profession. By portraying medicine as a small, secretive community that closes its ranks against outsiders (like the police), the book cleverly manages to cast suspicion on several characters and keep readers guessing. Dr. Maxene St. Clair, who left a university research job to work in the emergency room of a Milwaukee hospital, gets all the excitement she could want when a prostitute walks in, asks for her by name, then collapses and dies. It turns out she wasn't a prostitute but Nanette Myer, a surgeon's wife. Pathologist Aaron Simonson says she died of heart failure; Maxene doesn't buy it. Hank Myer dismisses Maxene's qualms, but results of a tissue analysis prove Nanette was killed by a nerve poison whose only known local source is Maxene's former lab. She'd be police detective Joseph Grabowski's prime suspect if they didn't have a very friendly relationship simmering. He accepts her insider's belief that, despite supposed safeguards, anyone in the department, from brilliant researcher Dr. Virginia Gaust to scruffy assistant Nathan Schalz, could obtain and use the poison or pass it on to one of the Myers' doctor-friends, who would know precisely what to do with it.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521536626
• ISBN 13: 9780521536622
• Binding: Pocket Book
• Number of pages: 95