Bluegate Fields
Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London’s most dangerous slums. What’s more, the unfortunate boy had been violated before he was murdered. So vile a case is hardly a topic for...
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Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London’s most dangerous slums. What’s more, the unfortunate boy had been violated before he was murdered. So vile a case is hardly a topic for drawing-room conversation.But when the Waybournes, the boy’s family, refuse to answer the police’s questions, Inspector Pitt begins to wonder what secrets they are trying to hide. Pitt’s wife and helpmeet, Charlotte, is determined to find out–even if it means tearing down the façades of an oh-so-proper family.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345514011 (0345514017)
Publish date: September 29th 2009
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt (#6)
I've never liked the Pitt novels as much as the Monk ones, but I thought this one was quite strong - perhaps because it's a bit more gritty in milieu, and because Perry's usual structural problem, finding independent investigational avenues for her male and her female, was less insisted upon and the...
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