Death of a stranger
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Series:
William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 13.
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Pub. Date:
2002.
Language:
English
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For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk's clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace - especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone's mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin?Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiance, an executive in Nolan Baltimore's thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him.As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is reponsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia - as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily parelleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding.
Subjects
Subjects
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
England -- London
Fiction
FICTION / Historical
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British
Fraud investigation
Fraud investigation -- England -- London -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Investigation
London (England) -- Fiction
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
Monk, Hester (Fictitious character)
Monk, Hester (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Monk, William (Fictional character)
Monk, William (Fictional character) -- Fiction
Monk, William (Fictitious character)
Monk, William (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Murder
Murder -- Investigation
Murder -- Investigation -- England -- London -- Fiction
Mystery
Mystery fiction
Private investigators
Private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction
Private investigators -- Fiction
Social conditions
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9780345458650
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display_description | Few authors have written more mesmerizingly about Victorian London than Anne Perry. Readers enter her world with exquisite anticipation, and experience a rich variety of characters and class: aristocrats living in luxury, flower sellers on street corners, ladies of the evening seeking customers on gaslit streets, gentlemen in hansom cabs en route to erotic diversions unknown in their Mayfair mansions. Now Perry gives her myriad fans the book they've been waiting for--the novel in which William Monk breaks through the wall of amnesia and discovers at last who he once was. DEATH OF A STRANGER For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk's clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace--especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone's mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin? Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiancé, an executive in Nolan Baltimore's thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him. As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is responsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia--as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily paralleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_full | Death of a Stranger Death of a stranger / Anne Perry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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topic_facet | FICTION FICTION / Historical FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British Fiction Fraud investigation Historical Fiction Historical fiction Investigation Monk, Hester (Fictitious character) Monk, William (Fictional character) Monk, William (Fictitious character) Murder Mystery Mystery fiction Private investigators Social conditions |