Doctor Izard

By Anna Katharine Green

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

In a hospital ward where life hangs by a thread, a mysterious proposition ignites a web of secrets, changing the destinies of a doctor, a dying man, and the daughter he seeks to provide for.

Genres

Crime/Mystery Literature Fiction

Released

2018-08-05

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Summary

"Doctor Izard" by Anna Katharine Green is a compelling late 19th-century novel centered on the enigmatic Dr. Izard, a talented but solitary doctor, and the interwoven lives of people in Hamilton. Exploring mortality, hidden secrets, and the heavy hand of the past, the story begins dramatically in Ward 13, where two patients are near death. A nurse watches over an older, critically ill man and another consumed by apathy. The arrival of a stranger with an offer involving money and a dying man's will for his daughter, Lucy, sparks a chain of revelations, connecting the characters' histories and building the mystery around Dr. Izard.