The brutal murder of a nurse and the goddaughter of Florence Nightingale has been investigated for the first time by an author.
Florence Nightingale Shore was found semi-conscious on a train in Bexhill on January 12, 1920, after a vicious attack and died four days later in hospital.
She was discovered by railway workmen and taken by train from Bexhill to Hastings hospital, where she later died. Her killer was never brought to justice.
The Nightingale Shore Murder is written by Rosemary Cook, who is the director of the Queen's Nursing Institute in London, where Miss Shore trained as a district nurse.
The book uncovers the story of the investigation into the murder by three police forces, the conclusions of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the famous Home Office pathologist who carried out the post-mortem and examined a possible murder weapon, and some bizarre theories about the perpetrator.
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