A sudden, fearful death

Anne Perry

Original title: A sudden fearful death.

earliest edition we have, 1993 Fawcett Columbine, 1993 383 pages

William Monk (4)

In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Night...

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Editions we hold

A sudden, fearful death edition · 2009 · Ballantine Books · 451 pages · 9780345513984
A Sudden Fearful Death (William Monk Novels) audiobook · 1995 · Chivers Audio Books · 9780745127248
A sudden, fearful death edition · 1994 · Thorndike press · 697 pages
A sudden, fearful death paperback · 1994 · Ivy Books · 454 pages · 9780804112833
A sudden, fearful death edition · 1993 · Fawcett Columbine · 383 pages

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