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A sudden, fearful death / Anne Perry.

Perry, Anne. (Author).

Summary:

Victorian private inquiry agent William Monk is hired to investigate the brutal rape of a young London woman and the strangulation murder of nurse Prudence Barrymore, a talented, extraordinary woman who had served in the Crimea with Florence Nightingale.

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  • ISBN: 044990637X
  • ISBN: 9780449906378
  • Physical Description: 383 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1993.

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Subject: Monk, William (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > England > London > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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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 also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past . . .

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