William Monk is a ficitonal Victorian era detective who solves mysteries, but there is always one mystery he is trying to solve regardless of the crime. This mystery is -- who is he, his life, etc. -- since this Mr. Monk has amnesia. This a book series by Anne Perry. I only have read one book. I think he also has an obsessive personality & doesn't quite get along with his Police Captain.

I don't know, but it certainly makes for interesting research. I'd never heard of William Monk before. It was interesting to note that William Monk's crime fighting partner was his nurse -- who, by the way became his love interest. Now I'm going to have to try to find a copy of those books.

But I was also a little surprised to discover that there are actually four literary and/or television detectives named Monk -- William, Ivan, Gus, and of course, our beloved Adrian. One of them also lived in San Francisco. (Pardon me if this has been discussed before. I'm a relative newbie)

You can read more about each of them here:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes2.html

Tks for the info, BfloGal. I will certainly look for it!

Thanks for the information Bflogal. I am going to look that up. I have never heard of any of them.

I saw that he was a Victorian detective last night and thought, maybe these books had been written during that era, like the Sherlock Holmes stories, so I tried Project Gutenberg, but was disappointed in my search. Now I know why. Project Gutenberg is a volunteer based project where you can frequently find copies of entire texts/stories/books, as long as said texts are no longer under copywrite. I love this place. You can find Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Homer, and Poe works here, just to name a few, and I see now that they offer the texts in a format that can be read from your Palm or Smart Phone! I wonder if my phone has that capability, I think it's a smart phone but it may be too old or a kind that doesn't have that option. But you can even download the entire Bible here, too.

Yeah, the detective is from the Victorian era, but the books are fairly new. (90's I think) And you know. I think the blurb I read said there are ten of them.

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You got me excited about Christie being there, and there are only two of her works. Oh well. BTW, OT you can also download the Bible in mp3 from this site:

http://www.sermonaudio.com/biblesearch.asp

My hubby's sermons are on there too.

Very, very interesting. Whether these Monks are an inspiration for Adrian Monk would be a question for the creator Andy Breckman. I'm guessing no, but one never knows. (Trade amnesia for OCD, London for San Francisco, etc.)