Inspector William Monk journeys from the luxurious mansions of Victorian London to its darkest slums as he searches for the missing Angus Stonefield, a gently, loving, and saintly man who may have been murdered by his depraved twin brother, Caleb. Mystery Guild Main. Lit Guild Alt.
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er a good murder and a shameful social evil, and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens's eyes pop."
--The New York Times Book Review
Victoria's London was the queen of the universe, a dazzling metropolis from whose magnificent mansions and discreetly luxurious clubs flowed the strategies that built the greatest empire ever known. Meanwhile the city's poor suffered and died in hopeless obscurity. Inspector William Monk knows his city's best and its worst--or so he believes until the day when charming Genevieve Stonefield comes to plead with him to find her missing husband.
In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now he is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him.
And so Monk puts himself into the missing man's shoes, searching in Stonefield's comf
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