Anne Perry: A Dangerous Mourning (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family -- until Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy.

Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail. With the help of nurse Hester Latterly, a progressive young woman who served with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the case, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth.

Anne Perry: A Dangerous Mourning. A William Monk Novel. Random House Publishing Group, ISBN: 9780345513946 (May, 2009), 368 p., $15.00.

Anne Perry: A Dangerous Mourning (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family -- until Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy.

Inspector William Monk is ordered to find her killer without delay -- and in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped, both by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail.

With the intelligen help of Hester Latterly, a progressive young woman who served with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the case, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth...

Anne Perry: A Dangerous Mourning. A Victorian Mystery featuring Inspector Monk. Ivy Books, ISBN: 0804110379 (November, 1992), 344 p., $4.99.

Anne Perry: A Dangerous Mourning (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
Anne Perry, whom the St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls "today's best mystery writer of Victoriana," lures us once again into the teeming gaslit world of Victorian London, where Inspector William Monk plies his dangerous trade.

No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family. Almost every day London's wealthiest and most powerful can be found taking tea or dining in the opulent family mansion of Sir Basil Moidore in Queen Anne Street.

Now Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter has been stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy. Inspector William Monk is ordered to find her killer without delay -- and in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family.

But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped, both by lingering traces of amnesia caused by an accident and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail.

With the intelligent help of Hester Latterly, an independent young woman who has served with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the case. Step by dangerous step, he approaches the astonishing, appalling solution. In her elegantly suspenseful unfolding of the terrible truth, Anne Perry demonstrates her complete mastery of the storyteller's art, and her keen understanding of Victorian England's manners and mores.

Anne Perry: A Dangerous Mourning. A Victorian Mystery featuring Inspector Monk. Fawcett Books, ISBN: 0449905543 (September, 1991), 330 p., $18.00.