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The book is illustrated with photographs by Andre Roosevelt, whom Mr. Powell, newspapermen, chummed with on Bali, drawings by Alexander King.
Exciting Case
NIGHT NURSE—Dora Macy—Brentano ($2).
Dora Macy [her real name is suppressed by the publishers], author of Ex-Mistress, says she met the heroine narrator of this tale in a hospital, heard her story, ghosted it for her. Readers will learn few sensational facts about the medical profession. They will, however, find this book a frank thriller, with villainy and heroics in high relief, easy to read, hard to enthuse over.
Lora Hart, the night nurse, takes a queer case: two little girls, daughters of a millionaire mother, who are wasting away without apparent cause. She soon discovers that the children are anemic from undernourishment. The mother is almost a dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse has evidently been written by one familiar with nursing practice. It digresses long enough to give a detailed version of a nurse's training. The book is also notable in having as its hero a bootlegger, a mighty nice fellow.