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This book is recorded on 11 cassettes for 15 hours of listening pleasure. This is a library edition In this enthralling Victorian mystery, master storyteller Anne Perry sweeps you back to the gaslit cobbled streets of nineteenth-century England and to the shocking secrets that lay hidden behind closed doors. No breath of scandal has ever stirred in the aristocratic halls of the Moidore family. That is, until the upstairs maid discovers Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter stabbed to death. The London Police Department immediately dispatches its most brilliant detective, WIlliam Monk, to track down her killer. After searching the scene of the crime, Monk arrives at a chilling conclusion, the killer can only be someone who lives in the house. With the intelligent help of Hester Latterly, a brave young nurse who served with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, Monk sifts through the shameful secrets of a proud family - and its servants - to expose a violent murderer preparing to strike again. Filled with breathtaking psychological suspense, coloful historical atmosphere, A Dangerous Mourning is Anne Perry at her extraordinary best.