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One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She''s from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying.While William Monk''s River Police fight to keep London safe from gun-runners, Hester takes on a new role at the hospital, helping to administer a secretive new treatment. But she slowly realises that this experimental cure is putting the lives of the children at risk. Attempting to protect the young victims, she comes under threat from one rich, powerful, and very ill man who is desperate to survive...

Anne Perrys Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries are perhaps the best loved of all her Victorian bestsellers, luring us into the multilayered richness of London, from the great mansions and secluded drawing rooms to the citys festering slums. Now, in her most mesmerizing novel yet, she invites us to a house-party at Buckingham Palace. The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the princes gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queens monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruitedto pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests conversations, scan their bedrooms, and scrutinize their troubled faces for clues to hidden rivalries and attachments that could have lead to murder. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young womanas seems increasingly likelyPitts career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall. With a cast of wonderful characters, among them the gentle Princess of Wales, and a twisting plot that takes us into the hidden world of the royal family, Anne Perry probes deeply the hearts of men and women ensnared by their own emotions. Never has this distinguished novelist told a story with more truth and passion.

En el hospital londinense Royal Free cada día se combate con la muerte; no con el asesinato. Así que el hallazgo del cadáver de Prudence Barrymore, una amable enfermera de buena familia, crea confusion y asombro. Pese a que la policia señala que Kristian Beck, un medico extranjero, es el culpable, la direccion del hospital encarga la investigacion del caso a William Monk. Este, junto a la enfermera y amiga de la victima Hester Latterly y el brillante abogado defensor Oliver Rathbone, desvelara los secretos intereses que en ocasiones empañan la imparcialidad de la justicia. Una duda razonable es la cuarta novela -tras El rostro de un extraño, Luto riguroso y Defensa o traicion- de la serie de misterio victoriano protagonizado por el detective William Monk.

El Príncipe de Gales ha citado en el Palacio de Buckingham a cuatro opulentos empresarios y a sus esposas para discutir una idea fantástica: la construcción de seis mil millas de vías férreas que se extenderían por toda la longitud de África. Pero, por desgracia, la reunión se convierte en un desastre cuando aparece el cuerpo mutilado de una prostituta contratada para cuando las esposas se hayan retirado a sus aposentos.

In Londons affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling.When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, superintendent Thomas Pitt is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--and justice (. . . )

In the sequel to No Graves As Yet, while tending to the soldiers in his care, chaplain Joseph Reavley stumbles upon the drowned body of an arrogant war correspondent, apparently killed not by the Germans but by one of his own countrymen, while his brother Matthew, an intelligence officer, searches for the sinister criminal mastermind known as the Peacemaker.

Anne Perrys magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the worlds best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perrys talents have taken a quantum leap (The Star-Ledger), and so has the number of her devoted readers. We Shall Not Sleep, the final book in this epic series featuring the dedicated Reavley family, is perhaps the most memorably enthralling of all Perrys novels. After four long years, peace is finally in sight. But chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith, an ambulance driver on the Western Front, are more hard pressed than ever. Behind the lines, violence is increasing: soldiers are abusing German prisoners, a nurse has been raped and murdered, and the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker now threatens to undermine the peace just as he did the war. Then Matthew, the third Reavley sibling and an intelligence expert, suddenly arrives at the front with startling news. The Peacemakers German counterpart has offered to go to England and expose his co-conspirator as a traitor. But with war still raging and prejudices inflamed, such a journey would be fraught with hazards, especially since the Peacemaker has secret informers everywhere, even on the battlefield. For richness of plot, character, and feeling, We Shall Not Sleep is unmatched. Anne Perrys brilliantly orchestrated finale is a heartstopping tour de force, mesmerizing and totally satisfying.

La segunda novela de la magistral serire de Anne Perry sobre la primera Guerra Mundial.En abril de 1915, la Primera Guerra Mundial sigue su implacable marcha. Entre las tropas británicas enviadas al frente se hallan los hermanos Reavley. Joseph, ejerce de capellan en las trincheras, Judith es conductora de ambulancias y traductora, y Matthew forma parte de los servicios de inteligencia en Londres, desde donde sigue investigando la extraña muerte de sus padres, hecho que asocian con un posible complot internacional en el que parecen estar involucradas Inglaterra y Alemania.

The third superb mystery featuring William Monk

The fourth brilliant William Monk novel from Anne Perry

London, 1868. As the christmas season begins, Claudine Burroughs feels little joy in its endless social calls and extravagant events. Working at a clinic for desperate women has opened her eyes to a different world. Then her two worlds collide.

La 1ère enquête des célèbres Charlotte et Thomas Pitt, en plein cœur de l'époque victorienne.

"DIFFICULT TO PUT DOWN . . . Descriptive, evocative, and always precise . . . The mystery plot is tricky and beautifully paced." *The Virginian-PilotThe ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But, under the victim's body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name Finlay Fitzjames--a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case.Finlay's father *immensely wealthy, powerful, and dangerous *refuses to consider the possibility that his son has been in Ada McKinley's bed. The implication is clear: Pitt is to arrest someone other than Finlay Fitzjames for Ada's demise. But Thomas Pitt is not a man to be intimidated, and with the help of his quick-witted wife, Charlotte, he stubbornly pursues his investigation *one that twists and turns like London's own ancient streets. . . . "Stands as one of her most intricately constructed plots . . . Perry packs a triple wallop into the final pages, one climax following another." *Chicago Sun-Times"Vibrant . . . Alluring." *The New York Times Book ReviewA MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

"Scenes [are] described in lush, sensuous strokes by Ms. Perry. . . . Monk, the dark and brooding hero . . . infuses this luxuriantly detailed series with its romantic soul." The New York Times Book Review. When Countess Zorah Rostova asks London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, without a shred of evidence, the countess insists that the prince of her small German principality was murdered by his wife, the woman who was responsible for his exile twenty years before. Though private investigator William Monk and his friend Hester Latterly, manage to establish that the prince was indeed murdered, as events unfold the likeliest suspect seems to be Countess Zorah herself. . . . "THE DENOUEMENT IS UNEXPECTED AND INGENIOUS." Los Angeles Times "Perry serves up as arresting an opening as ever." Kirkus Reviews A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MYSTERY GUILD

Que se trame-t-il réellement chez les Harcourt ? Alors qu''elle s''apprête à quitter le foyer de Charlotte et Thomas Pitt où elle travaille, la domestique Gracie reçoit la visite de Millie, la fille