When Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, is found strangled to death in a London hospital, private eye William Monk is assigned to investigate the horrific crime. As Monk gradually assembles the portrait of a remarkable woman,...
Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, is found strangled to death in a London hospital. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime. Gradually, Monk assembles the portrait of a remarkable...