A young bridegroom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fianc e, 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...
Miriam Gardiner disappears without a trace the day of her engagement party. Reluctant to cause a scandal, her fianc? seeks out William Monk and tells him that the only lead concerns their coachman, Treadwell, who is also missing. When Treadwell's murdered body is found, Monk...
The tenth novel in the riveting series featuring Victorian private eye William Monk - by the acclaimed author of A Breach of Promise. In stunning feats of imagination, Anne Perry brings to life the lost world of England's Victorian Age. With The Twisted Root, she holds us rapt...