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Инспектор лондонской полиции Уильям Монк пришел в себя в больнице – и понял, что не помнит абсолютно ничего. Ни почему он оказался здесь, ни что служит в полиции, ни даже своего имени; все это ему рассказал его начальник. Окрепнув физически, Монк вышел на службу и с головой окунулся в работу. Но вот какие дела он вел, Уильям тоже не помнил. И признаться в потере памяти не мог – иначе был бы объявлен непригодным к сыскной профессии и остался бы без средств к существованию. А ведь до несчастья Монк был отличным полицейским – это он уже понял. Теперь инспектору придется разбирать с нуля одно сложное дело, которое, если останется нераскрытым,…

В семье высокопоставленного лондонского политика сэра Бэзила Мюидора – страшная трагедия. Посреди ночи кто-то убил его любимую дочь Октавию, ударив ножом в грудь в собственной спальне. Неслыханное преступление! Поэтому расследовать его поставили самого блестящего сыщика столичной полиции Уильяма Монка. Поначалу наиболее очевидной версией случившегося казалось проникновение в дом грабителя, который неосторожно разбудил Октавию и был вынужден ее убить. Но затем Монк неопровержимо доказал, что извне в дом попасть никто не мог. А стало быть, это дело рук одного из домочадцев – слуг или родственников. Дело сразу же приобрело особый оборот…

В роскошном особняке Фэрнивелов, средь бела дня, произошло неслыханное событие. Во время званого обеда один из гостей, генерал Таддеуш Карлайон, упал с площадки второго этажа и напоролся на алебарду стоявших внизу рыцарских лат. По крайней мере, именно так на первый взгляд выглядела картина происшествия. Но полиция убедительно доказала: упал он не без посторонней помощи, а алебарду в него вонзили уже после падения. Налицо жестокое убийство. И убийцу не надо искать - вскоре он сам сознался в содеянном. Им оказалась жена генерала, Александра. Однако одна из родственниц убитого не поверила ее словам. Этой историей она поделилась со своей давней подругой Эстер Лэттерли. А та, в свою очередь, обратилась к бывшему инспектору полиции, а ныне частному детективу Уильяму Монку…

Смерть – частая гостья в лондонском Королевском госпитале. Но убийство произошло в этих стенах впервые… Задушена Пруденс Бэрримор, лучшая медсестра госпиталя, которая спасала раненых еще во времена Крымской войны. Кому была нужна смерть сестры милосердия? За ответом на этот вопрос член попечительского совета Калландра Дэвьет обратилась к своему давнему знакомому, бывшему полицейскому, а ныне частному сыщику Уильяму Монку. Помогать ему взялась мисс Лэттерли, которая тоже была медсестрой в Крыму и хорошо знала погибшую. Их частное расследование определило круг лиц, имевших мотивы для убийства. И это очень взволновало миссис Дэвьет – потому…

У Эстер Лэттерли безупречная репутация: медсестра, участница Крымской войны, спасавшая раненых солдат вместе с легендарной Флоренс Найтингейл. Благодаря недюжинному уму и смелости она помогла раскрыть не одно дело Уильяму Монку — прежде полицейскому, а ныне частному детективу. Но кто-то решил, что из сиделки выйдет отличный козел отпущения — и вот очередная пациентка умирает от яда, а в сумке у девушки обнаруживают брошь покойной. Теперь Монк должен как можно скорее найти настоящего убийцу, или Эстер не миновать виселицы…

К частному сыщику Уильяму Монку обратилась жена успешного коммерсанта Энгуса Стоунфилда, который в одно прекрасное утро ушел в свою контору — и не вернулся домой. Монк сразу же счел этот случай неинтересным — наверняка у пропавшего просто появилась другая женщина или он сбежал из-за финансовых проблем. Но миссис Стоунфилд заявила, что, без сомнений, в исчезновении Энгуса повинен его брат-близнец Кейлеб, ведущий совершенно безумную жизнь в лондонских трущобах. По ее словам, он всегда ненавидел так много добившегося в жизни Энгуса и часто ссорился с ним — и вот теперь, похоже, их очередная ссора завершилась братоубийством. Детектив начал…

Блестящий лондонский адвокат Оливер Рэтбоун совершил крупную ошибку – взялся защищать знатную особу, привлеченную к суду за клевету, причем, похоже, совершенно заслуженно. Ведь его подзащитная обвинила не кого-нибудь, а знаменитую принцессу Гизелу, и не в чем-нибудь, а в убийстве собственного мужа, кронпринца Фридриха! Хотя вся Европа восхищалась историей их великой любви вот уже двенадцать лет, с тех пор как Фридрих из-за женитьбы на Гизеле отрекся от короны у себя на родине и отправился в изгнание…Так что сама мысль о подобном преступлении показалась бы присяжным кощунством. Теперь Рэтбоуну предстоит либо найти доказательства правоты…

Лондон, 1860 год. Промозглой январской ночью жуткий крик разнесся по узким грязным переулкам Сент-Джайлза, одного из самых нищих и опасных районов города. Прибежавшие на шум полицейские обнаружили двух избитых респектабельно одетых джентльменов. Один из них был мертв, другой едва дышал. Сержант Джон Ивэн срочно доставил пострадавшего в больницу. Повреждения на его теле были ужасны, а самое главное, он потерял дар речи и ничего не мог рассказать. Кто же эти двое, и зачем они забрели туда ночью, где люди из их сословия не показываются даже днем? Ивэн не знает, за что хвататься и с чего начинать. Но он точно знает, кто в состоянии ответить на…

When a brilliant young architect suddenly ends his engagement to a socially prominent woman, her outraged parents file a sensational breach of promise suit. But the case comes to a tragic halt when a murderer strikes. Sleuth William Monk investigates. A Mystery Guild selection.

A young bridegroom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman, but there is no trace of the young passenger. What strange compulsion could have driven the beautiful widow to abandon the prospect of a loving marriage and financial abundance? Monk and clever nurse Hester Latterly, themselves now newlyweds, desperately pursue the elusive truth—and an unknown killer whose malign brilliance they have scarcely begun to fathom.

In Slaves of Obsession, Anne Perry thrusts her returning hero, William Monk, into the midst of the American Civil War. Monk is not choosing sides in this war based on the convictions of the Union or the Confederacy. Instead, he must put aside his principles to get to the bottom of a complex case involving gun smuggling, blackmail, and murder.

Slaves of Obsession begins with a dinner party at the home of Daniel and Judith Alberton. William Monk and his wife, Hester, meet not only the host and the hostess at this intimate gathering but also Judith's cousin Robert Casbolt, a Union sympathizer named Lyman Breeland, and the Alberton's 16-year-old daughter, Merritt. Although Breeland is quick to share his convictions, Daniel, Robert, and Judith remain more reticent on the topic of the war and try to change the subject. When an unexpected visitor named Philo Trace, a member of the Confederate army, arrives, their taciturnity regarding the Civil War becomes all too clear. Daniel and Robert deal in arms and have made a previous agreement with Trace to sell him guns for the Confederacy -- guns that Breeland desperately wants for his sacred Union.


Having to choose sides in the Civil War is the least of Alberton and Casbolt's problems, however. They soon turn to Monk for help as they are embroiled in a blackmail scheme in which an unknown person wants them to sell their valuable guns to pirates; if they fail to do so, an altruistic secret of theirs will be revealed in such a way that their reputations will be ruined.

Monk agrees to aid them, but before he can begin to help, everything spirals out of control: When William and Hester are awakened by a knock on their door, their lives become entangled with murder; a missing daughter whose passions are engaged not only by the war; a Civil War battlefield; and a London courtroom.

The headlines were gruesome: two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. To investigator William Monk and his wife Hester, the murders are a nightmare. One of the victims is an obscure artist's model. The other is the wife of Hester's cherished colleague, distinguished surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. With an intensity born of desperation, Hester, Monk, and their dear friend Lady Callandra Daviot, who cannot hide her deep love for the accused, seek evidence that will save Kristian from the hangman - hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa…

Few authors have written more mesmerizingly about Victorian London than Anne Perry. Readers enter her world with exquisite anticipation, and experience a rich variety of characters and class: aristocrats living in luxury, flower sellers on street corners, ladies of the evening seeking customers on gaslit streets, gentlemen in hansom cabs en route to erotic diversions unknown in their Mayfair mansions. Now Perry gives her myriad fans the book they’ve been waiting for—the novel in which William Monk breaks through the wall of amnesia and discovers at last who he once was.

DEATH OF A STRANGER

For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk’s clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace—especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone’s mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin?

Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiancé, an executive in Nolan Baltimore’s thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him.

As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is responsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia—as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily paralleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding.

From the Hardcover edition.

In her new masterpiece featuring private inquiry agent William Monk, New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry displays her prodigious writing talent. With insight, compassion, and a portraitist’s genius, Perry illuminates the shifting tide of emotions encompassing Queen Victoria’s London and the people who live there—aristocrats, brothel owners, thieves, Dickensian ruffians, and their evil keepers. She takes us through dangerous backstreets where the poor eke out their humble livings, and into the mansions of the rich, safe and secure in their privileged lives. Or so they believe. . . .

William Monk knows London’s streets like the back of his hand; after all, they are where he earns his living. But the river Thames and its teeming docks— where towering schooners and clipper ships unload their fabulous cargoes and wharf rats and night plunderers ply their trades—is unknown territory.

Only dire need persuades him to accept an assignment from shipping magnate Clement Louvain to investigate the theft of a cargo of African ivory from Louvain’s recently docked schooner, the Maude Idris. Monk is desperate for work, not only to feed himself and his wife, Hester, but to keep open the doors of Hester’s clinic, a last resort for sick and starving street women.

But he wonders: Why didn’t Louvain report the ivory theft directly to the River Police? Why did he warn Monk not to investigate the murder of one of the Maude Idris crew? Even more mysterious, why has Louvain brought to Hester’s clinic a desperately ill woman who he claims is the discarded mistress of an old friend? Neither Hester nor Monk anticipates the nightmare answers to these questions . . . nor the trap that soon so fatefully ensnares them.

In this magnificent novel, Anne Perry holds the reader spellbound, as Monk and Hester struggle to save themselves and their world from a catastrophe whose dimensions they can scarcely measure.


From the Hardcover edition.

For countless readers, one of life's great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside London's lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed.
A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the man's shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk can't help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the woman's somber beauty, he is impelled to try.
Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Mary's father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently died-a suicide, according to the police and Mary's sister. But Mary's friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Company's current project-the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolis-was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire.
Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Sutton's clever terrier. For once, even Monk's old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile manmade underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again.
With characters as vivid as Dickens's, gripping courtroom scenes, breathless horrors beneath the earth, and a plot that twists and turns toward a stunning denouement, Dark Assassin is absolutely one of Anne Perry's best. "From the Hardcover edition."

From the bestselling author of Buckingham Palace Gardens and Dark Assassin comes a deftly plotted Victorian crime novel featuring the long-awaited return of police superintendent William Monk.

Perry’s new William and Hester Monk story, a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London’s docks, outshines all her previous novels in this successful and beloved series.

When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves; far from it. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. How did this elegant scarf—whose original owner was obviously a man of substance—end up imbedded in the neck of a wharf rat who richly deserved his sordid end?

Dockside informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer—a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts for men willing to pay a high price for midnight pleasures. Although Monk and his fearless wife, Hester, would prefer to pin a medal on Parfitt’s killer, duty leads them in another direction—to an unresolved crime from the past, to blackmail and more murder, and to a deadly confrontation with some of the empire’s most respected men.

To a superlative degree, Acceptable Loss provides colorful characters, a memorable portrait of waterfront life, and a story that achieves its most thrilling moments in a transfixed London courtroom, where Monk faces his old friend Oliver Rathbone in a trial of nearly unbearable tension—in sum, every delectable drop of the rich pleasure that readers expect from an Anne Perry novel.

As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the entrails hanging from the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning move him with horror and pity. The victim’s name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little—only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She was quiet and dull, unlike the usual fallen doxy; her pillar of support was respectable Dr Lambourn, recent suicide after his government requisitioned report on opium was discredited.

Monk's old superior Runcorn was first on the scene for Lambourn, and now suspects government suppression. Lambourn's beautiful wife wife Dinah, lies about her whereabouts, denies accusations, but Monk must arrest her despite his belief in her innocence. While public, press, government, and biased judge push for quick hanging before Xmas, Monk, his spirited wife Hester, and their brilliant barrister friend Oliver Rathbone, search for answers. From dank waterfront alleys to London’s fabulously wealthy West End, the three trail an ice-blooded murderer toward the unbelievable, possibly unproveable truth—and ultimately engage their adversaries in an electric courtroom duel.

In Perry's stunning new novel, Hester Monk, the wife of William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, questions the finances of a London church whose members' hard-earned charitable gifts appear to have ended up in the pocket of charismatic preacher Abel Taft. Taft is accused of extortion, and brilliant barrister Oliver Rathbone, newly appointed a judge, is chosen to preside over his trial. It seems clear that Taft is indeed guilty. However, at the last second, the defense produces a witness who completely undermines the charges. Then Rathbone makes a well-meaning but reckless move that could ruin his career, his reputation, and his life--and Hester and Monk race to save their friend from total disgrace. From the teeming Thames docks to the wealthy West End Blind Justice, the incomparable art of Anne Perry grips us fast until the final, unforgettable scene.

One summer afternoon, Monk witnesses the horrifying explosion of the pleasure boat Princess Mary, which sends to their deaths nearly two hundred merrymakers.The tragedy is no accident, and as commander of the River Police, Monk should handle the case. But instead, the investigation is turned over to the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. An Egyptian man is swiftly caught, tried, and sentenced to die. But almost as quickly, Monk presents evidence that this man was elsewhere at the time of the blast. Is the crime connected with the soon-to-be-opened Suez Canal, which will enormously benefit wealthy British shipping companies? Or did all of those innocent people drown to ensure the death of just one? How did the bomber board the ship, and how did he manage to escape? Is he an anarchist or a madman? Backed up by his astute wife, Hester, and his old reliable friend Oliver Rathbone, Monk vows to find answers--but instead finds himself treading the dangerous waters of international intrigue, where asking the wrong question might easily make him the next target.