Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries
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The Cater Street hangman , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 1
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Callander Square , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 2
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3) Paragon walk
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1981
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English
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Charlotte Ellison Pitt, a proper upper class young woman, and her husband, a police inspector, solve an unpleasant and baffling crime.
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Resurrection Row , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 4
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1985
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English
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When a doctor is found brutally murdered, even the neighborhood's most hardened residents are stunned. But three more bodies are found, killed the same inexpert way, and Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte race against time to find the killer, as a treacherous mystery unfolds. No one, not the lowest brand of ruffian or the most established aristocrat, will come out unscathed
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Silence in Hanover Close , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 9
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10) Bethlehem Road
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Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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He might be elegant, but there's no mistaking it--the gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is definitely dead. Before Inspector Thomas Pitt can even speculate on why anyone should want to kill the eminent M.P., Sir Lockwood, a colleague of his, meets the same fate at the same spot. The public is outraged, and clever Charlotte Pitt, Thomas's well-born wife, helps her hard-pressed husband by scouting society's drawing rooms for clues...
11) Highgate rise
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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When the wife of Dr. Shaw dies in a deliberately set fire, Inspector Thomas Pitt searches for clues to the baffling crime in a Victorian London full of dark family secrets.
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Belgrave Square , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 12
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Farriers' Lane , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 13
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The Hyde Park headsman , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 14
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15) Traitor's gate
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1995
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English
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In Victorian England, superintendent Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, investigate murder and espionage. The case centers on traitors selling Germany documents relating to Britain's colonial plans in Africa. By the author of The Hyde Park Headsman
16) Pentecost Alley
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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A prostitute is murdered in Victorian London, strangled with her own stocking. Superintendent Pitt obtains a confession from a pimp who is promptly executed. Pitt gets a shock when a second murder follows, bearing the hallmarks of the first. Coincidence, or was Pitt party to a miscarriage of justice? By the author of Traitors Gate.
17) Ashworth Hall
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Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Scotland Yard's Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his clever spouse, Charlotte, investigate a murder at a secret summit of Irish political figures that threatens to precipitate a civil war.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 18
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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In 1890s London, Superintendent Pitt of Bow Street police station investigates the death of a woman working as a researcher in a vicarage. An autopsy shows she was pregnant. There are three suspects, one of them the vicar, a married man.
19) Bedford Square
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Superintendent Pitt investigates a blackmail ring, threatening to ruin the reputation of prominent people in Victorian London. It all begins with the discovery of a dead body outside a general's house. By the author of Brunswick Gardens.
20) Half Moon Street
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Superintendent Thomas Pitt, investigating the discovery of a dead man found drifting in the Thames, must walk a narrow line between hunting down the guilty and protecting the innocent when his search for answers leads him deep into Victorian London's bohemia.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt's testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend. Instead of being praised for his key testimony, Pitt is removed from his station command and transferred to Whitechapel, one of the East End's most dangerous...
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Southampton Row , Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 22
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23) Seven dials
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch investigates the murder of a diplomat whose body turns up at a mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Anne Perry's bestselling Victorian novels offer readers an elixir as addictively rich as Devonshire cream or English ale enticing millions into a literary world almost as real as the original. While flower sellers, costermongers, shopkeepers, and hansom drivers ply their trades, the London police watch over all. Or so people believe. ... Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
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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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"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 anarchists are at work. But what Pitt discovers is far more disturbing: the explosion was not a terrorist attack meant to sow chaos, but a calculated means to commit a targeted murder. And the evidence trail leads...