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May 10, 2018DorisWaggoner rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Hester's working in a hospital, subbing for a sick friend. Two brothers, a doctor and a chemist, are researching blood transfusions, though it takes a while for that to be clear. Interesting background material on the history of transfusions. An obnoxious but wealthy patient and his overdependent daughter don't care where the blood comes from that seems to be curing his "white blood" disease. When Hester's curiosity and interest in the subject gets too much for the chemist, he kidnaps her, taking the patient, the daughter, and the children from whom he's taking the blood, and continues his work. Monk is frantic, but ultimately he and his friends find and rescue her. An interesting topic, though the kidnapping part is a bit overblown as a plot device. An early subplot about a man who seems to have known Monk before his accident, causes the death of Monk's mentor and friend in the River Police, when he bleeds to death. This ties in with the need for the research that's being done, though unethically.