Reluctantly accepting an assignment to investigate an ivory cargo theft along the Thames, Victorian sleuth William Monk wonders why his client elected not to report the crime to police, a situation that turns more mysterious when the client brings a dangerously ill woman to Monk's wife's health clinic. By the author of No Graves As Yet. 100,000 first printing.

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Commissioned in The Shifting Tide to find the precious cargo of ivory stolen by river thieves from the hold of Clement Louvain's ocean-going schooner, private enquiry agent William Monk is intrigued by his new surroundings. The bank of the Thames is a world unto itself, but without the help of the famed river police, Monk hardly stands a chance of retrieving the ivory or tracking down the murderous men who killed an innocent crew member while robbing Louvain's ship. Not so coincidentally, Monk's wife Hester, who operates a shelter for sick and injured women of the streets, discovers that a woman with a mysterious connection to Louvain may hold the key to the missing ivory as well as many more deaths aboard his ship than the one Monk knows about. Perry's trademarked plotting, characterisation and verisimilitude in recreating Victorian London gleam brilliantly in this well-crafted historical mystery. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com

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