Countess Zorah Rostova asks Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander. Private investigator William Monk and his friend Hester Latterly verify the countess's claims, and though the two manage to establish that the prince was indeed murdered, as events unfold...
Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood, proclaimed the San Francisco Chronicle of Anne Perry. With a stroke of her pen, Perry restores the lost splendor of Victorian England to such three-dimensional...