num_pages: 345
description: "Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry's best to date."THE KIRKUS REVIEWSHis name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else....A Dual Main Selection of the Mystery GuildFrom the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Face of a Stranger
titlecomplete: The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)
characters: Sir Oliver Rathbone, Lady Callandra Daviott, Hester Latterly, William Monk
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Detective, Historical Mystery, Crime, Victorian, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 17896
places: London, England
series: William Monk
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Fawcett