The Silent Cry - Hardcover

Perry, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0449908488 ISBN 13: 9780449908488

Verlag: Fawcett Books, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

When respected solicitor Leighton Duff is found bludgeoned to death in one of Victorian London's worst slums, along with his severly injured son, Rhys, investigator William Monk uncovers a link between Duff's murder and a vicious series of attacks on local prostitutes.

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Among Anne Perry's other novels featuring investigator William Monk are Cain His Brother, Defend and Betray, and most recently Weighed in the Balance. She also writes the popular novels featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, including Pentecost Alley, Traitors Gate, The Hyde Park Headsman, Highgate Rise, and Ashworth Hall, which was a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. "Her grasp of Victorian character and conscience still astonishes," said The Cleveland Plain Dealer about the author. Hundreds of thousands of readers agree.

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nce Dickens has captured the shadow side of Victoria's England as masterfully as Anne Perry. In The Silent Cry, she once again exposes the particular vices spawned by an age renowned for its virtues and reforms. And our able guide is investigator William Monk, "the dark and brooding hero who infuses this luxuriantly detailed series with its romantic soul" (The New York Times Book Review).

Deep in London's filthy, dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life.

Now, in sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. Beside him lies the barely living body of his son, Rhys. The police cannot fathom these brutal assaults, until shrewd investigator William Monk uncovers a connection between them and a series of rapes and beatings of local prostitutes. Then it begins to seem shoc

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fawcett Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0449908488
• ISBN 13: 9780449908488
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 361
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