A sudden, fearful death
Language: English
Detective Detective and mystery stories Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Historical London (England) Monk Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Political Private investigators Suspense Traditional British William (Fictitious character)
Publisher: Ballantine
Published: Aug 29, 1994
Description:
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 . . .