A Sudden, fearful death

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been 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 Nightingale�??s nurses, and barrister Oliver Rathbone, Monk assembles a portrait of the remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil that darkens every level of society, and a frightening glimmer of his own eclip