Anne Perry. (2002). Death of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Anne Perry. 2002. Death of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Anne Perry, Death of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2002.

Anne Perry. Death of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2002.

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   • bioText: Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Blind Justice and A Sunless Sea, the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Death on Blackheath and Midnight at Marble Arch. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as eleven holiday novels, most recently A New York Christmas, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland and Los Angeles.
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Few authors have written more mesmerizingly about Victorian London than Anne Perry. Readers enter her world with exquisite anticipation, and experience a rich variety of characters and class: aristocrats living in luxury, flower sellers on street corners, ladies of the evening seeking customers on gaslit streets, gentlemen in hansom cabs en route to erotic diversions unknown in their Mayfair mansions. Now Perry gives her myriad fans the book they’ve been waiting for—the novel in which William Monk breaks through the wall of amnesia and discovers at last who he once was.
DEATH OF A STRANGER
For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk’s clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace—especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone’s mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin?
Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiancé, an executive in Nolan Baltimore’s thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him.
As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is responsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia—as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily paralleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding.

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     "Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood."

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   • content: "Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens's eyes pop."
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     September 9, 2002
     Bestseller Perry's latest novel (after 2001's Funeral in Blue) to feature mid-Victorians William Monk and his wife, Hester, offers an ingenious and baffling plot, compelling characters, both major and minor, plus plenty of courtroom drama, but is something of a diamond in the rough. In London's East End, Hester, a former nurse with Florence Nightingale, has established a shelter for prostitutes where the ill and injured can be treated. One night, a well-known railway magnate is found dead in a nearby brothel, and the police presence in the area grinds the illicit business of the pimps and prostitutes to a halt. William, meanwhile, has undertaken a private investigation into possible fraud. His client, the fiancée of a young executive for the same railway as the murder victim, fears her betrothed may be implicated in the fraud scheme. As William recognizes parallels with the past, memories that he lost in an accident seven years earlier start to haunt him. Unfortunately, the book suffers from hasty execution, as reflected in repetitious phrasing, pronouns with unclear antecedents and confusing narrative transitions between Hester and William and between William in the present and William before his amnesia. The result is a challenging read, though established fans will likely forgive the author her lapses because she tells such a wonderful story. (Oct. 1)Forecast:Perry is also the author of the Thomas Pitt Victorian series, most recently
     Southampton Row (Forecasts, Jan. 14), which was up to her usual high standard. Pressure to deliver the same quality on the first of her forthcoming WWI quintet may account for the relative weakness of what seems like a wrapup of the Monk series. Nonetheless, this entry should sell well enough.

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     June 1, 2002
     More Victorian-era mystery from Perry as William Monk investigates corruption in the railway industry.

     Copyright 2002 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from July 1, 2002
     Perry's highly acclaimed Victorian gaslighters starring London private investigator William Monk have all harbored a secret at their core: William Monk's past life, shrouded from him by amnesia. Perry's 11 previous Monk novels toy with the torment the investigator endures as a result of his amnesia. In Perry's latest, Monk's past catches up with him, threatening to overwhelm his sanity and his carefully constructed life. Fans of this highly acclaimed series (Perry writes two Victorian mystery series, one starring Monk, the other starring Thomas Pitt) will delight in the way clues to Monk's past, strewn through previous volumes, add up to a startling but fitting revelation. All readers will profit from Perry's deft handling of three mysteries at once here, as well as her providing a wealth of historical detail. The mysteries converge on the clinic operated for prostitutes by Monk's wife, Hester. On the night a railroad magnate is found murdered in a London brothel, three badly beaten prostitutes seek help at the clinic. Their plights, the mystery of the murdered gentleman, and Monk's past all start to intersect when a young woman seeks Monk's aid in investigating her fiance, who she fears may be guilty of fraudulent practices at his railway firm. The plot steams along to a heart-stopping climax. Another Perry tour de force.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2002, American Library Association.)

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DEATH OF A STRANGER
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