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The Shifting Tide
de Perry, Anne
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345440099
- ISBN 13
- 9780345440099
- Librería
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Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition 2004 Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Inspector William Monk novel, #14. Mystery novel set in Victorian London that brilliantly evoke's England's nineteenth-century legal justice system. Former owner name on endpaper. Nice clean and solid book in gray boards over blue cloth over spine with silver titles to spine; slight wear to lower edges; sewn binding is solid, tight, square. Bright and glossy jacket is not price-clipped, a little wrinkling of upper and lower edges. . 328 pp. 8vo. 2004, Ballantine Books
Sinopsis
In her new masterpiece featuring private inquiry agent William Monk, New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry displays her prodigious writing talent. With insight, compassion, and a portraitist's genius, Perry illuminates the shifting tide of emotions encompassing Queen Victoria's London and the people who live there--aristocrats, brothel owners, thieves, Dickensian ruffians, and their evil keepers. She takes us through dangerous backstreets where the poor eke out their humble livings, and into the mansions of the rich, safe and secure in their privileged lives. Or so they believe. . . .William Monk knows London's streets like the back of his hand; after all, they are where he earns his living. But the river Thames and its teeming docks-- where towering schooners and clipper ships unload their fabulous cargoes and wharf rats and night plunderers ply their trades--is unknown territory.Only dire need persuades him to accept an assignment from shipping magnate Clement Louvain to investigate the theft of a cargo of African ivory from Louvain's recently docked schooner, the Maude Idris. Monk is desperate for work, not only to feed himself and his wife, Hester, but to keep open the doors of Hester's clinic, a last resort for sick and starving street women.But he wonders: Why didn't Louvain report the ivory theft directly to the River Police? Why did he warn Monk not to investigate the murder of one of the Maude Idris crew? Even more mysterious, why has Louvain brought to Hester's clinic a desperately ill woman who he claims is the discarded mistress of an old friend? Neither Hester nor Monk anticipates the nightmare answers to these questions . . . nor the trap that soon so fatefully ensnares them.In this magnificent novel, Anne Perry holds the reader spellbound, as Monk and Hester struggle to save themselves and their world from a catastrophe whose dimensions they can scarcely measure.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 028592
- Título
- The Shifting Tide
- Autor
- Perry, Anne
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345440099
- ISBN 13
- 9780345440099
- Editorial
- Ballantine Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Palabras clave
- MONK, WILLIAM (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER) PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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