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Anne Perry’s newest Victorian novel plunges readers into the bustling streets and opulent drawing rooms of London, where the city’s gaslit thoroughfares echo with hooves, street vendors, and newsboys. Two beautiful women are found strangled in the studio of a well‑known London artist—one a wife of Hester Monk’s colleague, the other the unfortunate spouse of Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre. Principal suspect Dr. Beck becomes the focus for investigators William Monk and his wife, who pursue evidence to save him from execution and to uncover the deeper secrets of Elissa Beck’s tragic death.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Anne Perry
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