In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London's opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk's colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck's death, but the riddle of her life. . . .
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"Intelligently written and historically fascinating."
--The Wall Street Journal
"[Perry is] the most adroit sleight-of-hand practitioner since Agatha Christie."
--Chicago Sun Times
"You can count on a Perry tale to be superior."
--San Diego Union-Tribune
"Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens's eyes pop."
--The New York Times Book Review
"[A] master of crime fiction who rarely fails to deliver a strong story and a colorful cast of characters."
--The Baltimore Sun
About the Author:
Among Anne Perry’s other novels featuring investigator William Monk are Slaves of Obsession, The Twisted Root, A Breach of Promise, and The Silent Cry. She also writes the popular novels featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, including The Whitechapel Conspiracy, Half Moon Street, Bedford Square, and Brunswick Gardens. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
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- PublisherFawcett
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0345440021
- ISBN 13 9780345440020
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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