The Hospital Murder Case

<p>A string of deaths in the same bed at a hospital may mean murder! A nurse volunteers to spend the night in the bed to investigate...</p><p>"[MURDER WITHOUT WEAPONS by Means Davis is] an alternative classic that I wish I’d known about when I was writing the [Gun in Cheek] books; I could have done an entire chapter on it and THE HOSPITAL MURDERS which I’ve also since read." -- Bill Pronzini</p><p>Means Davis was the pen name of Augusta Tucker Townsend (1904-1999) a best-selling author who brought national attention to the Johns Hopkins Medical School with the novel Miss Susie Slagle’s. A daughter of the Deep South the former Augusta Tucker moved to Baltimore during the Depression to be part of a literary circle that included Gerald Johnson Ogden Nash R. P. Harriss and H. L. Mencken. Besides novels and short stories Mrs. Townsend also wrote a guide It Happened at Hopkins: A Teaching Hospital and more than 300 newspaper and magazine feature articles book reviews and opinion-editorials.</p>