A Duty to the Dead Author:Charles Todd England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford is no fragile upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. She isn't afraid to drive her own car or speak her own mind. Growing up in India and England, Bess learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her father, a revered officer she fondly calls the Colonel Sahib. At the outbreak o... more »f World War I, she follows in her family's patriotic footsteps and volunteers for the nursing corps - a job that takes her from the battlefield of Gallipoli to the hospital ship Brittanic. Aboard the Brittanic, Bess becomes close to a charming lieutenant named Arthur Graham. Tending to him in his final hours she promises Arthur she will deliver a message to his family. Little does she know that fufilling this duty to the dead will thrust her into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder that will endanger her own life.« less