num_pages: 464
description: Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, is found strangled to death in a London hospital. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime. Gradually, Monk assembles the portrait of a remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past . . .
language: English
title: A Sudden, Fearful Death
titlecomplete: A Sudden, Fearful Death (William Monk, #4)
characters: Hester Latterly, William Monk
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Detective, Historical Mystery, Crime, Victorian, Mystery, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 5963
places: London, England
series: William Monk
publisher: Ballantine