A sudden, fearful death

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: William Monk (Fictitious character),  Private investigators,  Fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Fictions télévisées,  Londre,  Monk William,  Détective privé,  Mystery and detective stories,  Large type books,  Monk, william (fictitious character), fiction,  Latterly, hester (fictitious character), fiction,  England, fiction,  London (england), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional,  New York Times reviewed,  Social life and customs,  Fiction, historical

Places: England,  London,  London (England)