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A carregar... Vocation fatale (original 1993; edição 2000)por Anne Perry (Autor)
Informação Sobre a ObraA Sudden, Fearful Death por Anne Perry (1993)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Again a very good Victorian mystery with Monk. This story started right out with a crime for William Monk to solve. Sad as it was, he solved it. The next case involves the death of Prudence Barrymore, a gentle woman, former nurse in the Crimea who is working in the hospital in London. Her death is tragic and hard to solve - at least correctly. Monk, Hester and Oliver Rathbone team up to race to find answers. (Hester knew Prudence in the Crimea, and goes undercover at the hospital to investigate.) Another well-written novel in the William Monk collection, Anne Perry really brings Victorian England to life. It is a real wake-up call being reminded that the idea of a woman training to be a doctor was such a laughable idea. How grateful I am to live in an era when a woman is appreciated for her intellectual abilities every bit as much (if not more) than her physical appearance. I don't want to give any spoilers but I was grateful that a barrister used his integrity over ambition. I'm looking forward to the next novel in the collection. En el hospital londinense Royal Free cada dÃa se combate con la muerte; no con el asesinato. Asà que el hallazgo del cadáver de Prudence Barrymore, una amable enfermera de buena familia, crea confusión y asombro. Pese a que la policÃa señala que Kristian Beck, un médico extranjero, es el culpable, la dirección del hospital encarga la investigación del caso a William Monk. Éste, junto a la enfermera y amiga de la vÃctima Hester Latterly y el brillante abogado defensor Oliver Rathbone, desvelará los secretos intereses que en ocasiones empañan la imparcialidad de la justicia. When Crimean nurse Prudence Barrymore is murdered and her body stuffed down a laundry chute, it is up to private investigator William Monk to discover who killed her. He has the aid of Hester Latterly who knew nurse Barrymore slightly and is now nursing in the same hospital. I was happy there was a lot more of Monk in this book. The last two books had more to do with Hester and Oliver Rathbone, the solicitor who is usually involved in the crimes detailed this series. There are some good twists and turns in this story though it seemed to take a while to reach the conclusion with some side alleys that didn't seem to have much to do with the actual crime. I also didn't learn much new about Monk's memory lapse (from the first book) which is what makes up so much of his character. But it was a good read despite a few plot holes; there were women doctors in America in the 1850s so I'm not sure why there was so much disbelief in England that a woman could go to medical school. Innovations in sterile environments in medical facilities were discussed by people such as Joseph Lister and Florence Nightingale though perhaps still ridiculed at the time of this book. Ms. Perry writes well with a lot of good detail about Victorian settings, and all-in-all, this was a fine effort. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingaleâ??s angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crimeâ??which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingaleâ??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 Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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