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Anne C Perry (born 1938 as Juliet Marion Hulme)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Fawcett Columbine, New York, 1993
Série : Livre 4 sur 23 - William Monk
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383 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister Oliver Rathbone, Monk assembles a portrait of the remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil that darkens every level of society, and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past--Publisher's description. Condition: Signed on the title page else a near fine copy in like jacket.
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- Titre
- A Sudden, Fearful Death
- Auteur
- Anne C Perry (born 1938 as Juliet Marion Hulme)
- Éditeur
- Fawcett Columbine, New York
- Année de publication
- 1993
- État de l'article
- Near Fine
- Jaquette
- Near Fine
- Signé
- Signed by Author(s)
- Reliure
- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 044990637X
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9780449906378
- Édition
- 1st Edition
- Série
- Livre 4 sur 23: William Monk
- Catalogues du vendeur
- Literature
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Death might be commonplace in 1857 in the Royal Free Hospital in London's Gray's Inn Road, but murder certainly isn't. When the body of Prudence Barrymore, a gently bred, dedicated and passionate nurse, is discovered stuffed into a laundry chute no one - high born or low - can be beyond suspicion. But the police seem determined to concentrate their efforts on proving Dr Kristian Beck the culprit - because he is foreign. Concerned and unhappy with this state of affairs, Lady Callandra Daviot of the Board of Governers asks Investigator William Monk to pursue the case.
Monk, frustrated by the lingering traces of amnesia caused by an accident, agrees, and calls upon his old colleagues to aid him. Hester Latterly, an independent young woman who served with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, knew the dead woman there; Hester's profession provides the perfect cover for her to obtain work at the Royal Free. And Oliver Rathbone, a brilliant barrister, who is brought in as counsel for the defence. But under the ever-present shadow of the gallows, and inching towards the appalling solution, the three begin to despair of justice ever prevailing.
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