title: Mr. Monk Gets on Board
author:  Hy Conrad 
description: &#8220;The Monk books are always wonderful fun."&#8212;<i>Kings River Life Magazine</i><br><br>&#8220;Some of the very best mystery novels being published today, period.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Rough Edges</i><br><br>&#8220;Even if you aren&#8217;t familiar with the TV series <i>Monk</i>, this book is too funny to not be read.&#8221;&#8212;<i>The Weekly Journal </i>(TX)<br>&#160;<br>&#8220;Entertaining and ruefully funny...stars one of television&#8217;s best-loved characters.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Honolulu Star-Bulletin</i><br>&#160;<br>&#8220;Full of snippets of slapstick humor and Monk&#8217;s special talents for observation.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Library Journal</i><br>&#160;<br>&#8220;A highly entertaining series....I get a big kick out of the <i>Monk</i> novels.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Mystery Scene</i><br>&#160;<br>&#8220;Hilariously funny and devilishly clever...an impossible-crime lover&#8217;s delight.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine</i><br>&#160;
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  ## Death Of A Stranger
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Anne Perry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hester Monk's voluntary work in Coldbath Square is increasingly demanding.
  Every night she tends to a stream of women of the streets who have been
  injured or become ill as a result of their trade. But the injuries are
  becoming more serious, and now a body has been discovered in one of the area's
  brothels. The dead man is none other than the wealthy and respectable Nolan
  Baltimore, head of Baltimore and Sons, a successful railway company. With
  calls for the police to clean up the streets, Hester decides she must
  intervene to protect these women who stand to lose everything. Meanwhile her
  husband, William Monk, has been approached by Katrina Harcus, who suspects
  that the company her fiance works for may be guilty of fraud. That company is
  Baltimore and Sons. As Monk endeavours to prevent a serious crime, possibly
  even a tragedy, taking place, he faces some staggering revelation