
Whenever Cherry takes a break from visiting nursing, Dr. By the seventh volume, Private Duty Nurse, she's out of the Army and the eighth volume, Visiting Nurse, finds her living in Greenwich Village, NYC. In the third book in the series, Army Nurse, Cherry joins the Army Nurse Corps. While there, she meets the classmates (Gwen, Bertha, Josie, Vivian, and Mai Lee) who become series-long friends. Her training at the Spencer Hospital School of Nursing is the subject of the first two books. Fortune, Cherry decides on a career in nursing. But first Cherry must face the effects of an island storm, as she and the island doctor struggle to save the crew of a shoal-wrecked boat.The Cherry Ames Unofficial Home Page Reprint Editions Spin-offs Facebook Forum Ĭharity 'Cherry' Ames is the peripatetic, job-hopping, mystery-solving, no nonsense nurse from Hilton, Illinois, featured in a series of twenty-seven mystery novels with medical settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 19. The startling solution to this baffling mystery waits for Cherry in three different places: deep in the salt-stained recesses of Rogues' Cave, in the musty tower room of Barclay House, and in the hole on the hill.

What hold does the industrialist Broderick have over Sir Ian? Who is "Little Joe" Tweed, and why does his trawler Heron ride at anchor off Balfour Island? But the mysterious actions of Sir Ian's erstwhile friend, Jock Cameron, force Cherry to conclude that trouble of even greater consequence is in the making. Cherry soon suspects that more than illness is worrying the peppery owner of the Balfour Iron Mines, and her suspicions only deepen upon their arrival at Barclay House on Balfour Island. Joe Fortune had quickly diagnosed, and Cherry is assigned to care for the truculent but endearing old Scotsman.

"Sudden hemorrhage of a peptic ulcer," Dr. Little does Nurse Cherry realize when distinguished Sir Ian Barclay is rushed by his nephew Lloyd to Hilton Hospital that her newest case will carry her north to misty, sea-beaten Balfour Island, off the rugged coast of wind-swept Newfoundland.
