Corridors of the night
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Corridors of the night
AUTHOR:
Perry, Anne.
ISBN:
9781472219473
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Headline, 2015.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
311 p. ; 18 cm
ABSTRACT:
One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying. While William Monk's River Police fight to keep London safe from gun-runners, Hester takes on a new role at the hospital, helping to administer a secretive new treatment. But she slowly realises that this experimental cure is putting the lives of the children at risk. Attempting to protect them, she comes under threat from one rich, powerful, and very ill man who is desperate to survive.
GEOGRAPHIC_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| Monk, William (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. |
| Private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction. |
| Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction. |
| London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. |
| Mystery fiction. |
| Historical fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying. While William Monk's River Police fight to keep London safe from gun-runners, Hester takes on a new role at the hospital, helping to administer a secretive new treatment. But she slowly realises that this experimental cure is putting the lives of the children at risk. Attempting to protect them, she comes under threat from one rich, powerful, and very ill man who is desperate to survive.