词条 | Green for Danger |
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| name = Green for Danger | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:GreenForDanger.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Christianna Brand | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Crime | publisher = Dodd, Mead and Company | release_date = 1944 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 199 pg | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Green for Danger is a popular 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand, praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting. It was made into a 1946 film which is regarded by film historians as one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel. Plot summaryA murder takes place in a rural British hospital. Inspector Cockrill is tasked to determine whodunit when the head nurse is killed after revealing that the death of a patient under anaesthesia was no accident. Cockrill states at one point, "My presence lay over the hospital like a pall - I found it all tremendously enjoyable." After another murder attempt leaves a nurse dangerously ill he re-stages the operation in order to unmask the murderer. {{DEFAULTSORT:Green For Danger}}{{1940s-mystery-novel-stub}}{{WWII-novel-stub}} 6 : 1944 British novels|British mystery novels|British novels adapted into films|World War II novels|Medical novels|Novels set in hospitals |
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