Nurse Edith

In the novel The Secret Adversary, Nurse Edith is a nurse who works for Dr Hall at his private nursing home in Bournemouth. When Julius Hersheimmer followed Edward Whittington to the nursing home, he learnt from Dr Hall that Whittington had come to see Nurse Edith who apparently was his niece. Later that same day, Nurse Edith left the nursing home accompanying a patient. To Hersheimer's chagrin, he would later discover that he had made a near miss. The patient was the elusive "Jane Finn" that he and were trying to track down.