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In Victorian London, young Inspector Thomas Pitt searches for the killer of a strangled maid and finds himself attracted to the clever Charlotte Ellison, who is not only a member of the household in which the murder took place, but is also very much above his social class.
2) Paragon walk
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In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed: a young woman was raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the aristocratic suspects begin to slip, it became appallingly clear that something ugly lurked behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk - something that could lead...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 6
Thomas Pitt volume 5
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 06
Thomas Pitt volume 5
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 06
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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.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 5
Mortalis
Thomas Pitt volume 06
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 05
Mortalis
Thomas Pitt volume 06
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 05
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When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? Before his death, the victim had been violated, a fact that makes it difficult for Pitt to question the boy's friends and family. Nevertheless, Pitt is shocked when the boy's parents refuse to answer police
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His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else....
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 2
William Monk novel volume 02
Mortalis
William Monk novel volume 2
William Monk novel volume 02
Mortalis
William Monk novel volume 2
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Inspector Monk returns to the scene of another Victorian-era murder mystery when the daughter of an upper-crust family is stabbed in her own home. Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat's daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the...
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 3
William Monk novel volume 03
William Monk novel volume 3
William Monk novel volume 03
William Monk novel volume 3
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After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the general's wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed him-- a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose. Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work...
10) Farriers' Lane
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When a distinguished judge dies of opium poisoning, the crucifixion five years before of Kingsley Blaine is brought back into the public eye, and it is screaming for revenge. The police had arrested a Jewish actor, who was soon condemend to hang. Police Inspector Thomas Pitt, investigating the judge's death, is drawn into the sensational murder, because it appears the judge was about to reopen the earlier case. He receives curiously little help from...
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In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 14
Thomas Pitt volume 14
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 14
Thomas Pitt volume 14
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 14
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"Thomas Pitt uses Charlotte's help to work on a murder in Hyde Park that is followed by three more murders."--from NoveList.
14) Traitor's gate
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Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt looks into the suspicious death of his childhood mentor, and at the same time investigates treachery in the Colonial office, where someone is passing vital information to Germany about England's African strategy.
15) Pentecost Alley
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"The murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley should occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis, but under the victim's body the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed 'Finlay Fitzjames'--a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case. Finlay's father--immensely wealth, powerful, and dangerous--refuses to consider the possibility that his son has been in Ada McKinley's bed....
16) Ashworth Hall
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A group of Irish political figures, Protestants and Catholics, gathers at Ashworth Hall in hopes of finally resolving the volatile issue of home rule for Ireland. When a mysterious murder shatters the decorum of the weekend, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his clever wife Charlotte arrive to root out the truth.
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In London’s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood—a “new woman” whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is as certain as he can
...19) The twisted root
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For Miriam Gardiner, attending a party at the London home of her fiance, Lucius Stourbridge, to celebrate their forthcoming marriage, should have been one of the happiest days of her life. But, after making a sudden exit from the party, Miriam disappears without a trace. Reluctant to cause a scandal, Lucius seeks out William Monk, a detective with a reputation for excellence...
20) Half Moon Street
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Set in Oscar Wilde's London in 1891, Perry's new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown, manacled to a punt, "in parody of ecstasy and death." At first it seems the victim is Henri Bonnard, a functionary in the French embassy; eventually, Pitt and dour sidekick Sergeant Tellman identify the body...
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