Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries
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The first book in Perry's bestselling Victorian crime series, bringing together Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Ellison Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swollen-faced bodies on the dark streets of this genteel neighborhood....
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The bodies of two newborn babies have been found in a park in the fashionable London neighborhood of Callander Square. While Inspector Thomas Pitt is fighting to get the squire's aristocratic residents to speak with him, his pretty, well-born wife Charlotte decides to do some detective work of her own. Soon she is unearthing secrets in every house on the square while Thomas tries to discover what would drive a person to murder.
3) Paragon walk
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 3
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2000
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Large type ed.
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310 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 4
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1981
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1 v.
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English
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Bluegate Fields , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 5
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 6
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English
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Victorian sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his unconventional wife, Charlotte, investigate a series of crimes near her parents' home in fashionable Rutland Place.
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Death in the Devil's Acre , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 7
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 8
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1987
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314 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 9
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Inspector Pitt is charged with murder in this “gripping and highly satisfying” entry in the New York Times–bestselling Victorian mystery series (Publishers Weekly).
At the behest of his superior, Thomas Pitt reopens a case gone cold. Three years prior, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered in his home in London’s exclusive Hanover Close. Pitt has been advised...
At the behest of his superior, Thomas Pitt reopens a case gone cold. Three years prior, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered in his home in London’s exclusive Hanover Close. Pitt has been advised...
10) Bethlehem Road
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When Members of Parliament are murdered crossing Westminster Bridge, Thomas and Charlotte Pit must sift through the many suspects to find the killer-before he strikes again In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. Inspector Thomas Pitt thinks the motive might have been personal . . ....
11) Highgate rise
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 12
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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When an obscure moneylender named William Weems is murdered in the humble Clerkenwell district, there are no mourners—and there is more than a little discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he so mercilessly devoured. Yet when Inspector Pitt finds in the murdered man’s office a list containing the names of some of London’s most distinguished gentlemen, he begins to realize the magnitude of his duty. William Weems, it...
13) Farrier's lane
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 13
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BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Anne Perry's Treason at Lisson Grove and Execution Dock.
When the distinguished Mr. Justice Stafford dies of opium poisoning, his shocking demise resurrects one of the most sensational cases ever to inflame England: the murder five years before of Kingsley Blaine, whose body was found crucified in Farriers’ Lane. Amid the public hysteria for revenge, the police had arrested a Jewish...
When the distinguished Mr. Justice Stafford dies of opium poisoning, his shocking demise resurrects one of the most sensational cases ever to inflame England: the murder five years before of Kingsley Blaine, whose body was found crucified in Farriers’ Lane. Amid the public hysteria for revenge, the police had arrested a Jewish...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 14
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English
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Not since the bloody deeds of Jack the Ripper have Londoners felt such terror as that aroused by the gruesome beheadings in Hyde
Park. And if newly promoted Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt does not quickly apprehend the perpetrator, he is likely to lose his
own head, professionally speaking. Yet even with the help of Charlotte Pitt's subtle investigation, the sinister violence continues
unchecked. And in a shocking turn of events that nearly convinces...
15) Traitor's gate
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 15
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1995
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411 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
16) Pentecost Alley
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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19) Bedford Square
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
20) Half Moon Street
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
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312 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
22) Southampton Row
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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24) Long Spoon Lane
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In a Victorian-era London beset by anarchists, detective Thomas Pitt investigates the mysterious death of Magnus Landsborough, the son of aristocrat Lord Sheridan Landsborough, during a violent gun battle between police and rioters.
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When scandal threatens the monarchy after a female guest turns up dead following one of the debauched stag parties of Edward, the Prince of Wales, the Palace calls in Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch to solve the murder with utmost discretion.
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2011
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Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
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Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure...
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"When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia murdering two of her companions in the process. Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew....
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"In this, the thirty-first installment of the New York Times bestselling Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series, Commander Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called to the scene of a brutal explosion in the heart of London. The bomb was set off during an important--and secret--police raid, killing several officers, and the government suspects anarachists are at work. But what Pitt discovers is far more disturbing: the explosion was not a terrorist...
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"It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queens confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. At Her Majestys request, Sir John had been surreptitiously investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast who seems...