A Sunless Sea (William Monk Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1423372611 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 396 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Perfect Title for a Great Book" according to D. Bell. I truly appreciate the title of this book for several reasons. First, it comes from Kublai Khan, a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was a notorious opium eater and according to legend wrote this upon awakening from an opium dream. "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river. A Sunless Sea---Imagery at it's best! Sue Averett Anne Perry masterfully links the name of this book, A Sunless Sea, with the poem Kubla Kahn written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 as she did with The Sins of the Wolf and Dante's Inferno. Coleridge was a known opium user in England when the drug was totally unregulated which leads us to the main focus of this book.As opium . lady lily jeep said Another great novel. Anne Perry does it again with a great novel There is generally no or very little violence in her novels, but in this one the body of a woman is found who has been horribly mutilated. It is found on a dock in Monks territory, as he is with the river police in a part of London. His investigation takes him to a possible connection
Anne Perry’s spellbinding Victorian mysteries, especially those featuring William Monk, have enthralled listeners for a generation. She must be a prostitute, but described as quiet and kempt she doesn’t appear to be a fallen woman. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. What sinister secrets could have made poor Zenia worth killing? And why does the government keep interfering in Monk’s investigation? While the public cries out for blood, Monk, his spirited wife, Hester, and their brilliant barrister friend, Oliver Rathbone, search for answers. But unless they can work a miracle, a monumental evil will go unpunished and an innocent person will hang. As commander of the River Police, Monk
She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as nine holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Homecoming, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Byzantine Empire. Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Acceptable Loss and Execution Dock, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Dorchester Terrace and Treason at Lisson Grove. Anne Perry lives i
Apparently, the doctor was devastated when his extensive report on the evils of opium use was rejected by the government. And, as in all her Monk novels, Perry exhumes and exhibits yet another of the Victorian era’s social evils. The drug was promoted as a panacea for many small ills, and its devastating effects were hushed up through the efforts of many of Britain’s wealthiest families, whose fortunes had been built on the opium trade. --Connie Fletcher . The eighteenth Monk novel is a brilliant Victorian police procedural in which well-realized characters and settings are fascinating in themselves. The investigation concludes in a hold-your-breath trial, starring Monk’s old friend, Sir Oliver Rathbone. Monk’s street canvassing of local prostitutes reveals a