Mr. Monk in Trouble

Mr. Monk in Trouble

1st edition 2009 hard cover
Author Lee Goldberg
Country United States
Language English
Series Monk mystery novel series
Genre Mystery novel
Publisher Signet Books
Publication date
December 1, 2009
Media type Print (hardcover)
Preceded by Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop
Followed by Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out

Mr. Monk in Trouble is the ninth novel based on the television series Monk.[1] It was written by Lee Goldberg,[2] and was published by Signet Books on December 1, 2009. Like the other Monk novels, the story is narrated by Natalie Teeger, the assistant of the title character, Adrian Monk.

Plot summary

Adrian Monk and Natalie Teeger arrive in Trouble, California, a small town known for an unsolved train robbery that happened there in 1962. In the 1840s, Trouble was also home to one of Monk's distant relatives, an assayer who possessed skills invaluable to the small town, and exhibited many of the same obsessive compulsive traits as Adrian. Monk discovers that these seemingly uncorrelated historical facts are connected to the murder of a museum security guard in Trouble who was a retired San Francisco police officer.[3]

The Case of the Piss-Poor Gold

The novel featured a short story entitled The Case of the Piss-Poor Gold, which was published before the novel was released in the November 2009 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.[4] In the story, Artemis Monk, an assayer in the California gold rush town of Trouble in the 1840s, goes from determining the value of rocks to solving a murder.

Characters

Characters from the television show

Original characters

Present Day

19th century characters

References

  1. "Hardcovers: Fiction/Mystery & Suspense". Publishers Weekly. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
  2. "California Bookwatch: The Mystery/Suspense Shelf". Midwest Book Review. February 2010. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
  3. "Monk In Trouble". Edward Gorman. 2010-01-09. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
  4. "The Case of the Piss-Poor Gold". Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. November 2009.