A sudden, fearful death / Anne Perry.
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 . . .