num_pages: 352
description: In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London's opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk's colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck's death, but the riddle of her life. . . .From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: Funeral in Blue
titlecomplete: Funeral in Blue (William Monk, #12)
characters: William Monk, Lady Callandra Daviott, Hester Latterly, Sir Oliver Rathbone, Charles Latterly, Imogen Latterly, Superintendent Runcorn
genres: Victorian, Fiction, Crime, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Historical Mystery, Historical, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 3877
places: London, England
series: William Monk
publisher: Fawcett