The Twisted Root
A young groom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. But Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman. There is no trace of...
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A young groom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. But Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman. There is no trace of Miriam. What strange compulsion could have driven the beautiful widow to abandon the prospect of a loving marriage and financial abundance? Monk and clever nurse Hester Latterly, themselves now newlyweds, desperately pursue the elusive truth--and an unknown killer whose malign brilliance they have scarcely begun to fathom. . . .
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780804119368 (0804119368)
Publish date: September 5th 2000
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 355
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
19th Century,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
Series: William Monk (#10)
A very intense plot involving two story arcs that do merge. The first is about a missing widow, Miriam Gardiner, who has vanished on the day that she is celebrating her engagement to young Lucius Stourbridge. Missing along with her is the family coachman along with the carriage and horses. When the ...
I'm picking up some of the stories I missed in the middle of the William and Hester Monk series (don't know why I prefer those so much to the same author's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, but that's how it is. Hester and Monk are gnarlier characters, perhaps, even now that they are married).This o...
This was a fun read. Good mystery with interesting characters and a subplot about the challenge to establish professional nursing in the UK in the 19th century. I'll read more by this author.
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