Dark Assassin

Perry, Anne

ISBN 10: 0345469291 / ISBN 13: 9780345469298

Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 2006

About this Item

SIGNED - Octavo. Navy blue boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering. Fair amount of bumping at the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page in black pen. Binding is tight, and has a very faint forward lean. Couple faint marks on the lower edge of the textblock (not remainder marks); pages are otherwise all clean, white, and crisp. 308 pages. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the very tip of the upper rear corner - otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. A William Monk book.

Seller Inventory # 001551

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dark Assassin
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345469291
• ISBN 13: 9780345469298
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: VG+
• Dust Jacket Condition: NF
• Signed: Signed by the Author

About this title

Synopsis

A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the man's shoulders. A caress or a push? The grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk can't help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? Determining the truth seems an impossible task, but haunted by the woman's somber beauty, he is impelled to try.
Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Mary's father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently died - a suicide, according to the police and Mary's sister. But Mary's friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Company's current project - the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolis - was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire.
Monk is now faced with the mysteries of three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife, Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation.

About the Author

Anne Perry is the bestselling author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, and Angels in the Gloom, as well as the holiday novels A Christmas Journey, A Christmas Visitor, and A Christmas Guest. She is also the creator of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England. Her William Monk novels include The Shifting Tide, Death of a Stranger, and Funeral in Blue. The popular novels featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt include Long Spoon Lane, Seven Dials, and Southampton Row. Her short story “Heroes” won an Edgar Award. Anne Perry lives in Scotland. Visit her website at www.anneperry.net.