The Face of a Stranger
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780449905302 (0449905306)
Publish date: September 26th 1990
Publisher: Fawcett
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
Series: William Monk (#1)
Detective William Monk wakes up in a hospital and suffers from amnesia after meeting an accident. At the same time, he is in a middle of a crime investigation. He tries to piece his past and the crimes almost simultaneously until he remembers an event that would possibly put him as a murder suspect
Set in London in the 1850s (no dates are given, but the Crimean War is prominent), The Face of a Stranger is the first in a 20-volume series of novels featuring detective William Monk. In an inventive twist, Monk is not introduced like Holmes or Peter Wimsey, with a full set of eccentricities and in...
bookshelves: tbr-busting-2014, summer-2014, series, mystery-thriller, published-1990, fraudio, victoriana, london, britain-england, historical-fiction Read from May 16 to June 10, 2014 Narrated by Davina Porter Description: His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police dete...
This was a great introduction to a new author for me, an author with an interesting past, to say the least.Set in Victorian London, William Monk wakes up in a hospital after an accident not knowing who he is or remembering anything about his past.He quickly learns that he is a detective, a highly mo...
A good first novel to kick off the series. The hero/detective William Monk awakes in a hospital in 1850's London without a memory of who he is, or what brought him there. In uncovering the truth behind the murder of an aristocrat, Monk meets Hester Latterly, a nurse who has returned from the Crimean...
11 years ago
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