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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 14
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English
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Police Supervisor Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte investigate a serious of gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of sleuths, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, peer beneath the elegant masks of the well-born suspects and reveal that something ugly lurks behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk-something that could lead to more scandal, and more murder....
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 12
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English
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When William Weems, obscure moneylender, is murdered Ispector Pitt is asked to investigate and discovers Weems was a vicious blackmailer who had a list of some of London's most distinguished gentlemen in his office.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt volume 6
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English
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Inspector Thomas Pitt learns that a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy dewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London's most dangerous slums. And the boy had been violated before he was murdered. The boy's family refuses to answer the police's questions, and the inspector begins to wonder what secrets it is trying to hide.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 20
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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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Series
Daniel Pitt novels volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy's most powerful shipbuilders"--
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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In Victorian England, Inspector Thomas Pitt is called upon to keep the peace during a heated general election and winds up investigating a murder tied to the Liberal candidate's Socialist, spiritualist wife--all the while unaware that his own family is also in danger.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch in Victorian England, rushes against time to learn the truth when the beautiful, notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari is put on trial for murdering her husband and senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson, rumored to be Zakhari's lover, falls under suspicion.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 21
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English
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For Inspector Thomas Pitt, doing one's job can have unpleasant consequences. When his testimony sends distinguished soldier John Adinett to the gallows for the murder of Martin Fetters, traveler and antiquarian, Adinett's friends (members of the Inner Circle, "those men who had secret loyalties which superseded every other honor or pledge") ensure that Pitt loses his command of the Bow Street station.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 4
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English
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It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab -– and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond? A doctor insists that Lord Augustus’s death was natural. But as far as the police are concerned, there’s certainly...
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English
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London’s most unusual sleuthing team, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, just cannot seem to stay away from trouble. When Charlotte learns of her mother’s distress in losing a locket with a compromising picture, she has no idea that it’s just the beginning of a series of bizarre events that will end in sudden death. For hidden behind the sumptuous elegance of Rutland Place, where Charlotte’s mother lives, are terrible secrets —...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 29
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English
Description
As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So there’s no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of Mrs. Kynaston’s beautiful lady’s maid. But weeks later, when the mutilated body of an unidentified...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 25
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English
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The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the princeś gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queenś monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet. With great...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 24
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English
Description
Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom? As Pitt delves into the case, he finds that there is more to the terrorism than the destructive gestures of misguided idealists. The police are running a lucrative...
15) The fourth enemy
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Daniel Pitt novels volume 6
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English
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"Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark-and dangerous-secrets in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named second prosecutor on a fraud case with the potential to make or break his-and the firm's-reputation. The trouble is, Malcolm Vayne, the man on trial, has deep pockets, and even deeper connections....
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Series
Daniel Pitt novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Pitt, along with his parents Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima has returned to London from the States for a visit. But it's not on the happiest of terms, since a violent theft just before her departure has left Jemima's good friend frightened and missing a treasured family heirloom. The thief appears to be a man named Sydney--a British diplomat stationed in America who, in a cowardly move, has fled to London, claiming...
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Series
Daniel Pitt novels volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders are keeping his mind occupied, but when Ian learns that their old professor, Nicholas Wolford, has been charged with plagiarism, he takes the time to personally ask Daniel to defend their beloved teacher. For help catching who Londoners are now calling the 'Rainy Day Slasher,' Ian also enlists Daniel's...
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Series
Daniel Pitt volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned detective father's influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched by his superior to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman's noose -- in only twenty-one days. Could the violent death have...
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