Good Used. 1979. The Young Women Of Nightingale House Are There To Learn To Nurse And Comfort The Suffering. But When One Of The Students Plays Patient In A Demonstration Of Nursing Skills, She Is Horribly, Brutally Killed. Another Student Dies Equally Mysteriously, And It Is Up To Adam Dalgliesh Of Scotland Yard To Unmask A Killer Who Has Decided To Prescribe Murder As The Cure For All Ills.