Book 7, by Helen Wells
Illustrated by "GB"
Grosset & Dunlap, 1946
This would be the first time she nursed on her own, without ranks of doctors and nursing supervisors and superintendents to guide her!
--From Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse, pp. 20-21
While deciding what she wants to do after her strenuous army years, Cherry takes a private duty case that involves her in fortunetelling, blackmail, and danger.
Chapter 1: Strange Beginning
Chapter 2: R.F.D.
With her mother and her mother's friends, Cherry attends a seance in nearby Bluewater, a resort town thirty miles from Hilton, where Charlie later is employed as a summer camp counselor (Clinic Nurse).
Chapter 3: Do, Re, Mi and Company
Chapter 4: The Fortunetellers
Chapter 5: On Tour
Concert pianist Scott Owens is Cherry's first celebrity patient--she also nurses historical novelist Martha Logan; young ballet dancer Leslie Crewe; movie director John Blaine; foreign correspondent Matthew Jeffrey; and stage actress Meg Morrow.
Chapter 6: Reunion
Chapter 7: Romance in Reverse
Cherry is not very musical: she can neither sing nor play piano, though she did take piano lessons (p. 50).
Chapter 8: The Threat
Chapter 9: Night Vigil
Chapter 10: A Wig, a Lure, a Lie
Chapter 11: Nocturnal Visitor
This was the last book issued in the original format, with a solid red cover, "Cherry Ames" in script and the title at the top, and the author in script at the bottom, printed in black; and a serious-looking, unsmiling picture of Cherry on the dust jacket spine.
Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse
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