The Twisted Root (William Monk Novels)
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ISBN: 0804119368 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, September 2000
In a mystery set in Victorian England, a perplexed groom hires private investigator William Monk to find his missing fiancTe, Miriam, who vanished suddenly from a posh party and has not been seen since that night. Reprint.
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A young groom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. But Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman. There is no trace of Miriam. What strange compulsion could have driven the beautiful widow to abandon the prospect of a loving marriage and financial abundance? Monk and clever nurse Hester Latterly, themselves now newlyweds, desperately pursue the elusive truth--and an unknown killer whose malign brilliance they have scarcely begun to fathom. . . .
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