A Funeral In Blue

By Anne Perry

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Featuring William Monk

The Face of a Stranger

A Dangerous Mourning

Defend and Betray

A Sudden, Fearful Death

The Sins of the Wolf

Cain His Brother

Weighed in the Balance

The Silent Cry

A Breach of Promise

The Twisted Root

Funeral in Blue

Featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt

The Cater Street Hangman

Callander Square

Paragon Walk

Resurrection Row

Bluegate Fields

Rutland Place

Death in the Devil’s Acre

Cardington Crescent

Silence in Hanover Close

Bethlehem Road

Highgate Rise

Belgrave Square

Farriers’ Lane

The Hyde Park Headsman

Traitors Gate

Pentecost Alley

Ashworth Hall

Brunswick Gardens

Bedford Square

Half Moon Street

The Whitechapel Conspiracy

Slaves of Obsession

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright © 2001 by Anne Perry

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group,

a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously

in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Ballantine is a registered trademark and

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perry, Anne.

Funeral in blue / Anne Perry.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-345-44001-3 (alk. paper)

1. Monk, William (Fictitious character)— Fiction. 2. Private

investigators—England—London—Fiction. 3. London (England)—

Fiction. 4. Nurses—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6066.E693 F86 2001

823′.914—dc21

2001037481

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: October 2001

v3.0

To Meg MacDonald, for her wonderful ideas,

her work, and her belief in me