Anne Perry

Betrayal at Lisson Grove
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ISBN: 9780755376827
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Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery. 1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branch's Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pi...

Execution Dock
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ISBN: 9780755349029
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Once again, Inspector William Monk, now of the Thames River Police, must face a dangerous foe. It's 1864, and after a game of cat and mouse, Monk has captured Jericho Phillips, the man he suspects of brutally killing a young mudlark and running an evil child prostitution ring. In bringing Phillips to justice, Monk hopes to close down the ring and avenge the memory of Durban, his old commander,...

Christmas Grace
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ISBN: 9780755334339
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In the sixth of Anne Perry's charming Christmas novellas, a community learns to come to terms with a terrible event from its past. Emily Radley's Christmas plans are shattered when she learns that her aunt is dying. Although estranged from her, Emily decides that she must journey to Susannah's home in Ireland to assist her in her final days. When she reaches Connemara though, it is evi...

Buckingham Palace Gardens
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ISBN: 9780755320615
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In the latest compelling book in Anne Perry's bestselling Pitt series, Inspector Thomas Pitt must navigate the upper echelons of society if he is to find a murderer bold enough to kill in Buckingham Palace. Early one morning, Inspector Thomas Pitt is awoken by a message from his boss, Narraway. A maid has been murdered. The maid worked at Buckingham Palace and Narraway needs his must trusted m...

Christmas Beginning
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ISBN: 9780755334315
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Runcorn, Monk's ex-boss and a bachelor, travels to Anglesey hoping to stave off the loneliness of the Christmas season and the memories of Melisande, the woman he fell desperately in love with. His efforts are in vain as he immediately meets Melisande's brother, John Barclay, and learns of Melisand's presence in Anglesey. Although a widow, Runcorn believes that Melisande is too far abo...

We Shall Not Sleep
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ISBN: 9780755302932
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The fifth and final book in Anne Perry's powerful series of novels set during World War One. The war is coming to a close. Joseph Reavley's regiment has suffered huge losses but all live in hope that peace will soon be upon them, when a further, brutal tragedy strikes the Front. Sarah Price, a young nurse, is savagely murdered and Joseph vows to find the person responsible. Matthew, Jose...

A Christmas Guest
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ISBN: 9780755327256
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Mariah Ellison isn't merely disappointed to learn that she won't spend Christmas at home with her married granddaughter: she is furious. Instead, Grandmama is being packed off to a house in the Romney Marshes to stay with her ex-daughter-in-law. Never having got on with Caroline, Mariah much disapproves of her new husband: decades younger than her, Joshua, an actor, is scarcely even respec...

Angels In The Gloom
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ISBN: 9780755329595
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It's March 1916, and Joseph Reavley is on sick leave and finding recovery slow and hard. His sister Hannah is caring for him at home, and it's a delight to them both when Shanley Corcoran, an old friend, comes to visit. Corcoran confides in Joseph that he's come very close to completing an invention that will paralyse the deadly German U-boats. Soon afterwards, however, the leading sci...

A Thomas Pitt Novel: Long Spoon Lane
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ISBN: 9780755320578
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You need a very long spoon indeed to dine with the devil. Early one morning, two bombs explode in an East London street. Forewarned of the attack, Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch, arrives in time to chase the bombers to a tenement in Long Spoon Lane. There, two men are arrested and one shot dead - but who and where and is the killer? As Pitt investigates, he uncovers truths more disturbing t...

The Shifting Tide
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ISBN: 9780747268994
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When the Maude Idris docks at the Pool of London, laden with ebony, spices and first-grade tusks of ivory collected from her voyage to Zanzibar, Clement Louvain leaves four armed seamen on board to guard the precious cargo. But as soon as the relief for the night watch arrives ready for duty in the morning, he finds the ivory gone and one of the seamen dead. Hindered by his ignorance of the rive...

A William Monk Mystery: Death Of A Stranger
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ISBN: 9780747268932
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A William Monk novel from the master storyteller of Victorian society. Nurse Hester Monk's voluntary work in Coldbath Square is increasingly demanding. Every night she tends to a stream of women of the streets who have been injured or become ill as a result of their trade. And now a body has been discovered in one of the area's brothels. The dead man is none other than the wealthy and ...

A William Monk Mystery: A Dangerous Mourning
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ISBN: 9780747245261
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A William Monk novel from the master storyteller of Victorian society. No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family. London's wealthiest and most influential can often be found taking tea or dining in the opulent family mansion of Sir Basil Moidore in Queen Anne Street. Now Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter has been stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocki...

Execution Dock
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ISBN: 9780345469342
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Thames River Police Superintendent Inspector William Monk and his team are pursuing Jericho Phillips, a child pornographer who runs a sex ring from inside an old ship, and when the body of a 13-year-old boy washes ashore and is revealed to be one of Phillips' victims, the need to find, arrest and convict him gains new urgency. Reprint....

Cain His Brother
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ISBN: 9780345514028
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Death in the Devil's Acre
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ISBN: 9780345514042
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Rutland Place
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ISBN: 9780345514035
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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....

Weighed in the Balance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345514059
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An exiled German prince falls from his horse in Victorian England and his wife is accused of murder. It's a scandal of international proportions and the man expected to sort out the truth from the lies is series sleuth William Monk. First though he must polish his manners. By the author of Cain His Brother....

A Christmas Promise
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345510662
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When a younger fellow orphan is imperiled by her uncle's murder and the flight of a family donkey, Gracie, Charlotte Pitt's maid aids the child's search for both the killer and the donkey. By the best-selling author of A Christmas Grace....

Anne Perry's Silent Nights
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345517296
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In A Christmas Beginning, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Runcorn's Wales coast holiday is interrupted by the murder of a local woman, while in A Christmas Grace, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily, is summoned to a coastal Ireland town that is haunted by a cold-case murder. Original....

A Sudden, Fearful Death
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345513984
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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 Latterl...

Bluegate Fields
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ISBN: 9780345514011
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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....

Resurrection Row
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ISBN: 9780345513991
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The Sins of the Wolf
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ISBN: 9780345514004
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A Dangerous Mourning
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ISBN: 9780345513946
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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 daugher 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 ineptitutde of hi...

Callander Square
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ISBN: 9780345513953
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Defend and Betray
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ISBN: 9780345513960
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Paragon Walk
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ISBN: 9780345513977
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Buckingham Palace Gardens
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ISBN: 9780345469328
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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....

Anne Perry's Christmas Mysteries
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345496423
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During a visit to the home of Charlotte Pitt's parents, Grandmama turns sleuth when a fellow guest--an outcast from her own family--is murdered, in The Christmas Guest, and in A Christmas Secret, substitute vicar Dominic Corde and his wife Clarice discover the corpse of the murdered vicar in a picturesque hamlet that is snowbound by a blizzard. Original. 25,000 first printing....

The Cater Street Hangman
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ISBN: 9780345513564
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The Face of a Stranger
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ISBN: 9780345513557
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At Some Disputed Barricade
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ISBN: 9780345456595
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In 1917, when an arrogant and incompetent British commander turns up dead, a reluctant Joseph Reavley searches for the truth about the crime and about the twelve men accused of the murder, racing against time and journeying behind enemy lines to find the individual responsible, while the fierce fighting continues along the Western front of World War I. Reprint. 40,000 first printing....

We Shall Not Sleep
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ISBN: 9780345456618
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In November 1918, as the guns of World War I fall silent, the Reavley siblings discover the identity of the Peacemaker, the man who had murdered their parents, but when Matthew is accused of the murder of a young nurse, his chaplain brother Joseph and ambulance driver sister Judith must race against time to clear his name, before they can unmask the traitor. Reprint. 35,000 first printing....

Dark Assassin
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ISBN: 9780345469304
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While on patrol near the Waterloo Bridge, Inspector William Monk, a superintendent with the Thames River Police, and his men witness the deaths of a young couple, but as Monk tries to determine if the deaths were the result of an accident, suicide, or murder, he stumbles into the middle of a conspiracy with ties to the highest levels of government. Reprint....

An Anne Perry Christmas
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ISBN: 9780345497000
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Presents two novels, including "A Christmas Journey" in which Lady Vespasia Cumming must investigate a mysterious death at an English country manor and "A Christmas Visitor" in which Henry Rathbone must work to uncover the killer at a Victorian estate....

Angels in the Gloom
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ISBN: 9780345456571
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The sequel to No Graves Yet and Shoulder the Sky presents a thriller set against the hellish backdrop of World War I Britain, as a beautiful Irish spy plies her trade in a London nightclub and, in a secret remote laboratory, scientists work to develop a weapon that could end the war. Reprint. 50,000 first printing....

Long Spoon Lane
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345469281
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In a Victorian-era London beset by anarchists, detective Thomas Pitt investigates the mysterious death of Magnus Landsborough, the young son of aristocrat Lord Sheridan Landsborough, during a violent gun battle between police and rioters. Reprint....

A Christmas Guest
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345483805
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During a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte Pitt's parents, Grandmama is called upon to play the role of amateur detective when a fellow guest--an outcast from her own family--is murdered. 65,000 first printing....

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
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ISBN: 9780451529992
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Collects twenty-two of the famous fictional detective's adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Crooked Man," "The Five Orange Pips," "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons," "The Musgrave Ritual," and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," in an anthology featuring a new introduction by best-selling author Anne Perry. Reprint....

Shoulder the Sky
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ISBN: 9780345456557
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While tending to the soldiers in his care, chaplain Joseph Reavley stumbles upon the body of a war correspondent, while his brother Matthew, an intelligence officer, searches for the sinister criminal mastermind known as the Peacemaker....

No Graves As Yet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345484239
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Learning about the untimely deaths of his parents, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is horrified when his father's acts of sedition are discovered, a situation that is complicated by the murder of a gifted and popular student, in a novel set against the backdrop of World War I. Reprint. 30,000 first printing....

The William Monk Mysteries
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345480934
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Inspector William Monk journeys into the dark underside of Victorian society as he investigates the brutal murder of a gentleman, the daughter of an aristocratic family, and a high-ranking military officer in an omnibus edition containing the first three William Monk mysteries--The Face of a Stranger, A Dangerous Mourning, and Defend and Betray. Original. 26,500 first printing....

The Shifting Tide
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345440105
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Reluctantly accepting an assignment to investigate an Ivory cargo theft along the Thames, Victorian sleuth William Monk wonders why his client elected not to report the crime to police....

A Christmas Visitor
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345476708
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When the tranquility of a snowbound Victorian estate in the Lake District of England is shattered by a shocking murder, the mathematician and inventor Henry Rathbone must put his analytical abilities to work to uncover the killer. 75,000 first printing....

A Study in Scarlet
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ISBN: 9780812968545
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Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister socialist groups gathering power in both Britain and America....

Brunswick Gardens
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ISBN: 9780449003183
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The twentieth novel in the series of Thomas and Charlotte Pitt tales of murder and detection in Victorian England sends the sleuthing couple into an Anglican church to find out who murdered a pretty advocate of Darwin's theories. Reprint....

Bethlehem Road
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ISBN: 9780449219140
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Inspector Thomas Pitt investigates the brutal murder of Sir Lockwood Hamilton--a kind family man and well-liked member of Parliament--calling on his wife, Charlotte, to help him scour society drawing rooms for clues...

Pentecost Alley
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449225660
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When a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name Finlay Fitzjames is found at the scene of a murder, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is threatened by Fitzjames's father to pursue other suspects. Reprint....

Silence in Hanover Close
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449216866
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Inspector Pitt's wife Charlotte travels in disguise to an exclusive neighborhood to investigate the three-year-old murder of a high official in the Foreign Office, in a period mystery set in Victorian London...

The Hyde Park Headsman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449223505
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Investigating a series of brutal murders that remind Londoners of Jack the Ripper, police superintendent Thomas Pitt and his investigative partner and wife Charlotte uncover a shocking set of clues that are linked to an elusive killer. Reprint....

Highgate Rise
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ISBN: 9780449219591
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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. Reprint....

Cardington Crescent
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ISBN: 9780449214428
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A Breach of Promise
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ISBN: 9780804118552
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The ninth novel in the series of mysteries set in Victorian London follows investigator William Monk and his right-hand assistant, nurse Hester Latterly, as they plunge into a case of a wealthy family, a beautiful daughter, a reluctant fiance+a7, and murder. Reprint....

A Christmas Promise
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410419910
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When a younger fellow orphan is imperiled by her uncle's murder and the flight of a family donkey, Gracie, Charlotte Pitt's maid aids the child's search for both the killer and the donkey. By the best-selling author of A Christmas Grace. (Mystery & detective). Simultaneous....

A Sudden, Fearful Death
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780804112833
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Victorian private inquiry agent William Monk is hired to investigate the brutal rape of a young London woman and the strangulation murder of nurse Prudence Barrymore, an extraordinary woman who had served in the Crimea with Florence Nightingale. Reprint....

Ashworth Hall
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449000861
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When a group of powerful Irish Protestants and Catholics gathers to discuss home rule, the meeting's moderator--a government official--winds up dead in his bath, leaving Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his wife to avert an explosion of mayhem. Reprint....

Bedford Square
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449005828
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Superintendent Thomas Pitt teams up with his wife, Charlotte, to investigate when the corpse of a murdered man turns up on the doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne, who denies all knowledge of the crime or the victim....

Belgrave Square
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449222270
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When obscure moneylender William Weems is found murdered in the humble Clerkenwell district, Inspector Pitt uses a list found in Weems's office, containing the names of London's most distinguished gentleman, to investigate. Reprint....

Execution Dock
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410414038
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Thames River Police Superintendent Inspector William Monk and his team are pursuing Jericho Phillips, a child pornographer, and when the body of a thirteen-year-old boy washes ashore and is revealed to be one of Phillips' victims, the need to find him gains new urgency....

Paragon Walk
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449211687
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The exclusive community surrounding London's Paragon Walk is startled by the brutal rape and murder of a young woman, and, when Inspector Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, investigate, the community's Victorian facade begins to crumble...

Seven Dials
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345440082
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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....

Slaves of Obsession
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449005927
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Ritual murder, mysterious disappearences, and theft spur Victorian investigator William Monk and his wife Hester to investigate an arms dealer and his seemingly flawless London mansion. By the author of The Twisted Root. Reprint....

A Christmas Beginning
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345485823

Spending his Christmas holidays on the remote island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn is called in to investigate when the sister of the local vicar is found murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's churchyard.d....

A Christmas Grace
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345502032

Forced to leave her husband and two children to attend her dying aunt on the far west coast of Ireland over the Christmas holidays of 1895, Emily Radley confronts her own depression as well as a tragic secret that is destroying the spirit of her aunt's remote village....

A Christmas Grace
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410410054

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A Christmas Journey
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345466730

When a peaceful weekend party at a posh English country manor house is ruined by a mysterious death, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould--from the best-selling Thomas Pitt series--takes on the role of sleuth to investigate the crime, in a Christmas mystery novella....

A Christmas Journey
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755321148

A new Christmas novella from international bestselling author Anne Perry, the master storyteller of Victorian society. Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected plac...

A Christmas Secret
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345485816

Heading for a rural village to replace the local vicar who is away on holiday, Dominic and Clarice Corde are stunned when they discover the corpse of the murdered vicar stashed in the cellar and launch an investigation to find a killer....

A Christmas Visitor
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755323647

Henry Rathbone arrives to spend Christmas at the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. He is greeted by the news that the master of the house, Judah Dreghorn has slipped while crossing a stream in the grounds of the estate in the middle of the night, and drowned. Not only this, but Ashton Gower, recently released from prison, is slandering Judah's name, claiming that his family rightfull...

A Dish Taken Cold
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780786711543

Terror consumes the heart of young Celie, who works for Madame de Sta l following the storming of the Bastille in July 1789, as she unknowingly leaves her baby to die in the arms of a friend, and falls victim to betrayal and danger, in a chilling novella of betrayal and revenge set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Reprint....

A William Monk Mystery: Slaves And Obsession
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780747262824

A William Monk novel from the master storyteller of Victorian society....

Acceptable Loss
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755376841

Inspector William Monk once again faces a dangerous foe in the seventeenth novel in Anne Perry's acclaimed series. 1864 - Monk and his wife Hester are doing their best to care for Scuff a homeless boy slowly recovering from a terrifying ordeal at the hands of Jericho Phillips, the runner of a child prostitution ring. Although Scuff s evil abductor is dead, there is no suggestion that the ring...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Ashworth Hall
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006510918

A Victorian Murder Mystery. To all outward appearances, it is yet another exclusive gathering at the magnificent Ashworth Hall. Select members of High Society arrive for a weekend at the country seat of up-and-coming Mr Jack Radley, hosted by his charming wife, Emily. A phalanx of maids, valets, cooks and grooms is at the ready. Also in attendance are Emily's sister Charlotte and her husba...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Belgrave Square
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006479079

A Victorian Murder Mystery. The grisly murder of William Weems drew little pity. A ruthless moneylender, he preyed upon the poor of Clerkenwell and was not averse to blackmail when the chance came his way. Few would have taken any notice, had not the Chief of Police at Bow Street been approached by an old friend for a curious favour. What could link peer of the realm Lord Sholto Byam with the ...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Bluegate Fields
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006479055

A Victorian Murder Mystery. The filthiest of crimes . . . The naked body of a teenage boy is found dead in the stinking sewers of Bluegate Fields. Enquiries prove that he was a sixteen year old aristocrat, that it was no ordinary drowning and that he shows unmistakable signs of syphilis. Not the best news for Inspector Thomas Pitt to bring to the parents, Lord and Lady Waybourne. Yet, surpris...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Brunswick Gardens
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006510925

A Victorian Murder Mystery. The conservative clergy of the Church of England is under attack from the growing popularity of Darwinism. But is it really such a threat to Reverend Parmenter that he killed his assistant for believing in it? Superintendent Pitt is called to the Parmenter household in Brunswick Gardens to prevent a scandal. Parmenter was about to be made bishop, and his assistant w...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Callander Square
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006511212

A Victorian Murder Mystery. Gruesome discovery in the gardens . . . Murders just didn't happen in fashionable, respectable areas like Callander Square - and yet, there had bee two in a short space of time. The police were baffled. But Charlotte Pitt was curious. Inspector Pitt's well-bred wife had not formed the habit of meddling in her husband's business, but something about this...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Farriers' Lane
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006479130

A Victorian Murder Mystery. Inspector Pitt is enjoying an all-too-rare night out at the theater when, in a neighbouring box, Judge Stafford collapses. Investigations prove that he has been poisoned by opium. Suspicion finally falls on the immediate family, but Pitt soon discovers another powerful motive: Stafford had been re-examining one of his old cases, the controversial hanging of a Jewish ...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Highgate Rise
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006479062

A Victorian Murder Mystery. Family secrets up in flames . . . A ferocious fire shocks genteel Highgate Village. But when it proves to be arson, Inspector Thomas Pitt finds himself in charge of a complicated case of murder. While the city of London and Bow Street station reel from the repulsive crimes of Jack the Ripper, Highgate remains untouched. But its cosy society is not as spotless as it...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Paragon Walk
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006511229

A Victorian Murder Mystery. In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime has been 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 killer. As the elegant masks of the aristocratic suspects begin to slip, it becomes appallingly clear that some...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Pentecost Alley
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006498186

A Victorian Murder Mystery. It is barely two years since the prostitutes of London's East End were terrorized by Jack the Ripper. Now in dismal Pentecost Alley, a killer is at work in Whitechapel once more. Not that the grisly murder of a mere whore is enough to merit the expertise of Superintendent Pitt of Bow Street. Society regards such women as less than human, deserving all they get. ...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Resurrection Row
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006511236

A Victorian Murder Mystery. In 'Resurrection Row' the Pitts are faced with a bizarre and gruesome challenge . . . It was the most incredible thing: a corpse driving an empty hansom cab through the foggy streets on a London evening. And it wasn't just any corpse but the body of a peer of the realm. This was sheer lunacy. Who on earth would want to unearth a decently buried old cha...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Rutland Place
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006511243

A Victorian Murder Mystery. Fifth in the popular series of Victorian murder mysteries starring Inspector and Charlotte Pitt. When Charlotte Pitt learned of her mother's distress at losing a locket with a compromising picture, she could not know that it was the beginning of a chain of bizarre events that would end in sudden death. For hidden behind the sumptuous elegance of Rutland Place were...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: The Cater Street Hangman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006511205

A Victorian Murder Mystery....

An Inspector Pitt Novel: The Hyde Park Headsman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006479147

A Victorian Murder Mystery. Slaughter on the Serpentine . . . London, 1890, and Thomas Pitt's promotion to Superintendent of Bow Street is as bad as he's feared. He must delegate to resentful colleagues as the most horrific killings since the Whitechapel Murders terrorise the city, beginning with the discovery of a headless body on the Serpentine. Is there a madman on the rampage? Mea...

An Inspector Pitt Novel: Traitors' Gate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006498179

A Victorian Murder Mystery. Superintendent Thomas Pitt of Bow Street is up against the most sensitive and politically demanding case of his career. There is a traitor at work in the Colonial Office, passing confidential information to the German Embassy, and the expansion of the empire is at stake. The field of suspects is limited to a handful of highly distinguished public servants, all with f...

Angels In The Gloom
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755302888

It's March 1916, and Joseph Reavley, stumbling across the wastes of no man's land to rescue a comrade, is badly wounded. Sent home on sick leave, he finds recovery slow and hard. His sister Hannah is caring for him, but he can't share the grim reality of life in the trenches with her - anxious as she is about Archie, her husband, away at sea. War is changing England at a pace that Ha...

Angels In The Gloom
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755309795

It's March 1916, and Joseph Reavley, stumbling across the wastes of no man's land to rescue a comrade, is badly wounded. Sent home on sick leave, he finds recovery slow and hard. His sister Hannah is caring for him, but he can't share the grim reality of life in the trenches with her - anxious as she is about Archie, her husband, away at sea. War is changing England at a pace that Ha...

At Some Disputed Barricade
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345456588

In 1917, when an arrogant and incompetent British commander turns up dead, a reluctant Joseph Reavley searches for the truth about the crime and about the twelve men accused of the murder, racing against time and journeying behind enemy lines to find the individual responsible, while the fierce fighting continues along the Western front of World War I. 60,000 first printing....

At Some Disputed Barricade
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755302918

It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over no-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the death of an officer, twelve soldiers are arrested, and it falls to Joseph to uncover the truth about their involvement. Joseph's brother ...

At Some Disputed Barricade
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755309801

It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over No-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As chaplain he must keep up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he is losing any chance of getting through to them. After the death of an officer, twelve soldiers are arrested, and it falls to Joseph to uncover the truth about their involvement. Joseph's brother ...

Betrayal at Lisson Grove
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755376803

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Buckingham Palace Gardens
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345469311

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....

Buckingham Palace Gardens
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755320608

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Christmas Grace
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755334322

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Christmas Promise
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755351114

A young girl is searching for the truth behind her uncle's death. Can she solve the mystery before the Christmas bells toll?...

Dark Assassin
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345469298

While on patrol near the Waterloo Bridge, Inspector William Monk, a superintendent with the Thames River Police, and his men witness the deaths of a young couple, but as Monk tries to determine if the deaths were the result of an accident, suicide, or murder, he stumbles into the middle of a conspiracy with ties to the highest levels of government. 60,000 first printing....

Dark Assassin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755320592

The two figures had been on the bridge. He had grasped hold of her. To save her, or to push her? Inspector William Monk is still feeling his way in a new post in the Thames River Police and knows he must solve the mystery to gain the respect of his men. Soon both he and Hester find themselves powerfully involved in the story of the dead woman, Mary Havilland, and her quest to vindicate her father,...

Death by Horoscope
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780786708451

Featuring original stories by such contributors as Anne Perry, Lawrence Block, Sharyn McCrumb, Peter Lovesey, Marcia Muller, and Faye Kellerman, a gripping collection combines mystery with astrology and delves into the mystical omens and lethal reckonings that exist in the astral plane and profoundly impact the human heart....

Death by Horoscope
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780786711536

Featuring original stories by such contributors as Anne Perry, Lawrence Block, Sharyn McCrumb, Peter Lovesey, Marcia Muller, and Faye Kellerman, a gripping collection combines mystery with astrology and delves into the mystical omens and lethal reckonings that exist in the astral plane and profoundly impact the human heart. Reprint....

Death in the Devil's Acre
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449210956

Four bodies have been discovered in the lurid section of Victorian London known as the Devil's Acre, and Inspector Pitt and his irrepressible wife, Charlotte, are called in to investigate...

Death of a Stranger
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345440068

Private detective William Monk is hired by a mysterious client who wants him to discover whether or not her fianc e, a railway firm executive, engages in fraudulent practices, a case that brings Monk face to face with his past....

Defend and Betray
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780804111881

When General Thaddeus Carlyon meets his death at a London dinner party, his wife confesses that she is the murderer, and Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and Oliver Rathbone work feverishly to prove her innocence. Reprint....

Execution Dock
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345469335

When a thirteen-year-old boy is found floating in the river Thames with his throat slit, William Monk, superintendent of the Thames River Police, pursues a child pornographer who runs a sex ring using small boys. Monk's wife Hester and several memorable characters from Dark Assassin return in this richly complex story....

Execution Dock
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780755320622

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Farriers' Lane
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449219614

Investigating the poisoning death of a distinguished judge, Inspector Pitt finds himself haunted by a grisly murder committed in desolate Farrier's Lane five years before...

Funeral in Blue
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345440020

When two women, one of them the wife of the accused killer, are found strangled in the studio of a London artist, William Monk, his wife Hester, and Lady Callandra Daviot set out to clear their friend's name....

Half Moon Street
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449006559

A bizarre murder on the Thames leads Inspector Thomas Pitt into the shadowy underworld around Victorian London's art district for answers....

Letters from the Highlands
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781932280562

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Long Spoon Lane
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345469274

In a Victorian-era London beset by anarchists, detective Thomas Pitt investigates the mysterious death of Magnus Landsborough, the young son of aristocrat Lord Sheridan Landsborough, during a violent gun battle between police and rioters. 75,000 first printing....

No Graves As Yet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345456533

Learning about the untimely deaths of his parents, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is horrified when his father's acts of sedition are discovered, a situation that is complicated by the murder of a gifted and popular student, in a novel set against the backdrop of World War I. Reprint....

No Graves As Yet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755305285

'No Graves As Yet' is the utterly compelling first of a five-novel sequence that is a searing, ambitious and masterly portrait of England through the First World War. In Cambridge, in 1914, the golden June days seem timeless. But for Joseph Reavley, a university don, the idyllic summer is shattered by his parents' deaths in a car accident. Bringing the terrible news, his brother reve...

No Graves As Yet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755322251

'No Graves As Yet' is the utterly compelling first of a five-novel sequence that is a searing, ambitious and masterly portrait of England through the First World War. In the idyllic summer of 1914, the battle liens are already drawn . . . In Cambridge, in 1914, the golden June days seem timeless. But for Joseph Reavley, a university don, the idyllic summer is shattered by his parents'...

Sheen on the Silk
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755358328

An epic, rich, fascinating and compelling standalone historical novel set in Byzantium in the late 13th century. A brilliant standalone novel from Anne Perry, a master of the Victorian mystery.1273 the gorgeous, cosmopolitan and enlightened city of Byzantium is in acute danger. Only an alliance with the Church of Rome will stop the crusading fervour of the Italian and French troops on its borde...

Shoulder The Sky
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755308606

In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels - which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the horrors of war. By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends...

Shoulder The Sky
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755325467

In April 1915, Joseph Reavley is serving as chaplain on the Front Line at Ypres. The war that should have been 'over by Christmas' has already decimated the British Expeditionary Force. To Joseph's sector comes an ambitious young war correspondent determined to expose the horrors of trench life. But before he can dispatch his piece, he is found dead in no-man's-land. Still seeking ...

Slaves of Obsession
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345433268

Ritual murder, mysterious disappearences, and theft spur Victorian investigator William Monk and his wife Hester to investigate an arms dealer and his seemingly flawless London mansion. By the author of The Twisted Root. 75,000 first printing....

Southampton Row
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780747268888

A Victorian Murder Mystery. Despite showing great courage in the Whitechapel case, Thomas Pitt has angered the Inner Circle's secretive group of powerful men, and is demoted from Superintendent of Bow Street police to work in Special Branch. With an election just days away, and Lord Salisbury's future looking uncertain, Pitt's first task is to obtain information that will stop an evi...

The Sheen on the Silk
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345500656

In a tale set in 13th-century Constantinople at the brink of a Christian crusade, Anna Zarides disguises herself as a eunuch named Anastasius to prove her brother's innocence of a crime he did not commit....

The Silent Cry
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780804117937

When the respected solicitor Leighton Duff is found bludgeoned to death in one of Victorian London's worst slums, along with his severely injured son, Rhys, investigator William Monk uncovers a link between Duff's murder and a vicious series of attacks on...

The Sins of the Wolf
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780804113830

In a blend of Victorian courtroom drama and intricate mystery, William Monk frantically searches for the truth to save his trusted sidekick, Nurse Latterly--on trial for her life...

The Twisted Root
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345433251

Victorian-era private detective William Monk returns as he and his new wife, Hester, investigate the mysterious disappearance of Miriam Gardiner, who vanishes from a croquet party at the sumptuous estate of her future in-laws, leaving behind the body of a murdered coachman. 50,000 first printing....

The Twisted Root
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780804119368

Victorian-era private detective William Monk and his new wife, Hester, investigate when Miriam Gardiner vanishes from a croquet party at the sumptuous estate of her future in-laws, leaving behind the body of a murdered coachman....

The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345433282

In the wake of a successful but unlikely sentencing of a distinguished soldier and murder suspect, Bow Street Station Superintendent Thomas Pitt is removed from office and forced to work undercover in the dangerous East End Special Branch. 100,000 first printing....

The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449006566

In the wake of a successful but unlikely sentencing of a distinguished soldier and murder suspect, Bow Street Station Superintendent Thomas Pitt is removed from office and forced to work undercover in the dangerous East End Special Branch. Reprint....

Traitor's Gate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780449224397

Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his savvy wife Charlotte investigate a security leak in the Colonial Office, an official coverup, and the "accidental" death of Pitt's mentor, Sir Arthur Desmond, in a tale of high treason and murder in Victorian England...

We Shall Not Sleep
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345456601

With the war coming to a close, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his family learn that the identity of the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker is about to be revealed by a German counterpart, but the family must first solve the mystery of a murdered nurse....

We Shall Not Sleep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755309818

The War is coming to a close, with huge advances by the Allies. Joseph Reavley's own regiment has suffered huge losses but all are living in hope that peace will soon be upon them, when a further, brutal tragedy strikes the Front. Sarah Price, a young nurse, is savagely raped and murdered and Joseph, sickened by the crime, vows to find the person responsible. Matthew, Joseph's brother, i...

Weighed in the Balance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780804115629

As barrister Oliver Rathbone prepares to defend his client, Countess Zorah Rostova, against a charge of slander, private detective William Monk and nurse Hester Latterly become caught up in a notorious case of royal scandal and murder in nineteenth-century London. Reprint....