William Monk y su inseparable compañera Hester, enfrentados a dos científicos convertidos en asesinos.
Los hermanos Rand -Magnus, un médico astuto, y Hamilton, un genio de la química- buscan obsesivamente una cura para lo que por entonces se conoce como la «enfermedad de la sangre blanca».
En un anexo del Hospital de Greenwich, la enfermera Hester Monk está atendiendo al adinerado Bryson Radnor, uno de los pacientes moribundos de los hermanos Rand, cuando topa con tres niños débiles y aterrorizados, y se da cuenta con horror de que los dos científicos los han comprado para realizar experimentos con ellos. Los Rand están a punto de conseguir una cura milagrosa, y no pueden correr el riesgo de que se conozcan sus experimentos...
Antes de que Hester pueda revelar el secreto, ella también cae prisionera. Mientras el comandante Wiliam Monk y sus fieles buscan a Hester en las oscuras calles londinenses y la bella campiña inglesa, el tiempo se agota para la valiente enfermera y los niños a los que intenta proteger.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Intrincado y lleno de suspense.»
Historical Novels Review
«Nuevamente, Anne Perry evoca de forma meticulosa el Londres de la era victoriana. Esta es una de sus mejores novelas, y ella continúa explorando los oscuros impulsos que acechan nuestra alma.»
Providence Journal
«Describe el Londres de la época victoriana en toda su corrupta gloria.»
Bookreporter
«La disfrutarán tanto los fans de la serie como los nuevos lectores.»
Deseret News
«Las tramas de las novelas de Anne Perry están maravillosamente elaboradas.»
The New York Times
«La investigación culmina en un juicio que deja sin aliento.»
Booklist
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series.
In Corridors of the Night, 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 ruthless in their pursuit of a cure for what was then known as 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.
Taut with intrigue and laced with white-knuckled terror, Corridors of the Night is Anne Perry at her magnificent, unforgettable best.
Praise for Corridors of the Night
“[A] suspenseful, twisting narrative.”—Historical Novels Review
“Anne Perry has once again evocatively and meticulously conjured up Victorian London. . . . This is one of her best as she continues probing . . . the dark impulses that haunt all human souls.”—Providence Journal
“Pulls no punches and depicts Victorian London in all its corrupt glory.”—Bookreporter
Praise for Anne Perry and Her William Monk novels
Blood on the Water
“One of Ms. Perry’s most engrossing books . . . gallops to a dramatic conclusion.”—The Washington Times
Blind Justice
“[Perry’s] courtroom scenes have the realism of Scott Turow.”—Huntington News
A Sunless Sea
“Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries are marvels.”—The New York Times Book Review
Acceptable Loss
“Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue.”—The Star-Ledger
Execution Dock
“[An] engrossing page-turner . . . There’s no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry.”—The Boston Globe
