Funeral in blue

Description:

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. . . .

subjects: Fiction,  Private investigators,  Private investigators in fiction,  Nurses,  William Monk (Fictitious character),  Nurses in fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Historical fiction,  Leadership,  Large type books,  London (england), fiction,  Monk, william (fictitious character), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Private investigators, fiction,  Latterly, hester (fictitious character), fiction,  Open Library Staff Picks,  William Monk (Fictional character),  Homicide,  Surgeons,  Police,  Social life and customs,  Mystery fiction

Places: England,  London,  London (England)