Bibliograph

Corridors of the night, a William Monk novel, Anne Perry

Type

Label

Corridors of the night, a William Monk novel, Anne Perry

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Corridors of the night

Oclc number

898909612

Responsibility statement

Anne Perry

Series statement

William Monk novel, 21

Sub title

a William Monk novel

Summary

"Nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to homicide. The monomaniacal Rand brothers--Magnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a genius chemist--are utterly ruthless in their pursuit of a cure for the fatal "white-blood disease." In London's Royal Naval Hospital annex, Hester is tending one of the brothers' dying patients--wealthy Bryson Radnor--when she stumbles upon three weak, terrified young children, and learns to her horror that they've been secretly purchased and imprisoned by the Rands for experimental purposes. But the Rand brothers are too close to a miracle cure to allow their experiments to be exposed. Before Hester can reveal the truth, she too becomes a prisoner. As Monk and his faithful friends--distinguished lawyer Oliver Rathbone and reformed brothel keeper Squeaky Robinson among them--scour London's grimy streets and the beautiful English countryside searching for her, Hester's time, as well as the children's, is quickly draining away" --, provided by publisher

Target audience

general

Creator