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A new installment featuring police superintendent William Monk. A high-end prostitute is found brutally murdered on the London docks, and Monk's quest to discover the truth behind her death leads him down a shocking path, littered with secrets that have been buried since the infamous Opium Wars.
Monk discovers a shocking truth while investigating the murder of a high-end prostitute with ties to an opium-dispensing doctor's widow.
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Claudine Burroughs - who works with William Monk's wife Hester at the women's clinic - expects nothing but an unbearably boring several hours from a Christmas party she attends with her husband. However, when an endearingly romantic poet has his prostitute companion crash the glittering event - and the woman winds up dead - Claudine has more on her hands than she bargained for.
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It is January, 1897. The local police have found evidence of what appears to be an ugly crime at the home of Dudley Kynaston, an important member of the Ministry of Defense. There is no corpse, but one of Kynaston's maids, Kitty Ryder, is missing. Because of Kynaston's importance, Pitt and the Special Branch are called in to investigate.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 27
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Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot toblow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure...
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