A sudden, fearful death
- Authors
- Anne Perry
- Publisher
- Ballantine
- Tags
- general , fiction , detective , mystery , mystery & detective , fiction - mystery , suspense , historical , detective and mystery stories , political , london (england) , traditional british , mystery & detective - general , monk , william (fictitious character) , private investigators
- ISBN
- 9780804112833
- Date
- 1994-08-29T07:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.35 MB
- Lang
- nl
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, is found strangled to death in a London hospital. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime. Gradually, Monk assembles the portrait of a remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past . . .