A Sudden, Fearful Death
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...
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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 . . .
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780804112833 (0804112835)
Publish date: August 29th 1994
Publisher: Ballantine
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
19th Century,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Murder Mystery
Series: William Monk (#4)
bookshelves: mystery-thriller, published-1993, series, victoriana, tbr-busting-2014, summer-2014, britain-england, london, rape, families, women Read from May 08 to July 29, 2014 Narrated by Davina PorterDescription: Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had worked with Florence Nightingale i...
This year I am determined to start working my way through Mt. TBR, that ever-growing heap of books in my life. (no, an e-reader isn't really helping much...) I kicked off the year with the fourth book in the ongoing William Monk series. Set in a hospital, a nurse is found strangled in a laundry chut...
Classic Perry, but I did figure this one out quicker than the others.
Hands down, my favorite William Monk thus far. This book is really quick moving and draws in the reader very quickly with the death and taboo subjects in the book.
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