Acceptable Loss
  • Published:
    Aug-2011 (Hardcover)
    Aug-2012 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
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  • Main Genre:
    Historical Mystery
  • Time Period:
    19th Century Victorian (1837-1901)
  • Pages:
    336
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"Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil," The New York Times Book Review once declared, "and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens's eyes pop." And Perry's new William and Hester Monk story, a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London's docks, outshines all her previous novels in this successful and beloved series.

When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves; far from it. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. How did this elegant scarf -- whose original owner was obviously a man of substance -- end up imbedded in the neck of a wharf rat who richly deserved his sordid end?

Dockside informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer -- a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts for men willing to pay a high price for midnight pleasures. Although Monk and his fearless wife, Hester, would prefer to pin a medal on Parfitt's killer, duty leads them in another direction -- to an unresolved crime from the past, to blackmail and more murder, and to a deadly confrontation with some of the empire's most respected men.

To a superlative degree, Acceptable Loss provides colorful characters, a memorable portrait of waterfront life, and a story that achieves its most thrilling moments in a transfixed London courtroom, where Monk faces his old friend Oliver Rathbone in a trial of nearly unbearable tension -- in sum, every delectable drop of the rich pleasure that readers expect from an Anne Perry novel.
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    • Aug-2012
    • Ballantine
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0345510615
    • ISBN13: 9780345510617
    •  
    • Sep-2011
    • Headline (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0755376854
    • ISBN13: 9780755376858
    •  
    • Sep-2011
    • Headline (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0755376862
    • ISBN13: 9780755376865
    • First Edition
    • Aug-2011
    • Ballantine
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0345510607
    • ISBN13: 9780345510600
    •  
    • Apr-2011
    • Headline (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0755376846
    • ISBN13: 9780755376841
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0345530306
    • ISBN13: 9780345530301
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 059446630X
    • ISBN13: 9780594466307
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Headline (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0755376870
    • ISBN13: 9780755376872
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1423372573
    • ISBN13: 9781423372578
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1423372506
    • ISBN13: 9781423372509
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1423372549
    • ISBN13: 9781423372547
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1423372530
    • ISBN13: 9781423372530
    •  
    • Aug-2011
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1423372514
    • ISBN13: 9781423372516
    •  
    • Jul-2011
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1410441261
    • ISBN13: 9781410441263
    • Large Print



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