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When the body of your small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves; definately not it. But William Monk, commander of the River Police force, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. How did this elegant headscarf - whose original owner was obviously a man of material - finish up imbedded in the neck of your wharf rat who richly deserved his sordid end? Dockside informers lead Monk from what may be a incomplete answer - a floating palace of problem on the Thames handled by Parfitt, in which a captive music group of half-starved kids is forced to execute vile functions for men willing to pay a high price for midnight pleasures. Although Monk and his fearless better half, Hester, would like to pin a medal on Parfitt's killer, responsibility leads them in another path - to an unresolved offense from days gone by, to blackmail and even more murder, and to a dangerous confrontation with a few of the empire's esteemed men. To some superlative level, Acceptable Loss provides colourful heroes, a memorable portrait of waterfront life, and a tale that achieves its most exciting occasions 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 wealthy pleasure that readers expect from an Anne Perry book.
