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Una embarcacin de recreo explota en medio del Tmesis, en lo que resulta ser una venganza por un acto de agresin por parte de soldados britnicos durante la construccin del Canal de Suez. El detective Monk es apartado del caso, que pasa a manos de la polica de Londres. Cuando sta comete un error tras otro el caso vuelve a Monk, pero entonces la investigacin ha tomado un rumbo difcil de corregir. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAs commander of the River Police, Monk should handle the case, but the investigation is turned over to the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. An Egyptian man is swiftly caught, tried, and sentenced to die. But almost as quickly, Monk presents evidence that Habib Beshara, though a nasty piece of work, was elsewhere at the time of the blast.
About the Author
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including The Cater Street Hangman, Calandar Square, Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade, and We Shall Not Sleep, as well as six holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Grace. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
