Author

Publication

2009 - Ballantine Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

112,750 words, Guess

Page Count

451 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780345513984
  • ISBN-100345513983
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009517900
  • OCLC Control Number299706306
  • Better World Books9780345513984
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6066.E693 S84 2009

Description

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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • A sudden, fearful deathBallantine Books2009

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