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The stylish gentlemen of London’s Paragon Walk are suspects in a novel that “combines murder with a profile of the morals and manners of Victorian society” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
When innocent Fanny Nash of exclusive Paragon Walk dies in the arms of her exquisite sister-in-law, Jessamyn, Inspector Pitt is assigned to investigate her rape and murder. Every man of Paragon Walk is under...
When innocent Fanny Nash of exclusive Paragon Walk dies in the arms of her exquisite sister-in-law, Jessamyn, Inspector Pitt is assigned to investigate her rape and murder. Every man of Paragon Walk is under...
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The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him—for in the dead man’s pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general’s study. The superintendent must tread lightly,...
6) Sanctuary
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A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Las Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in Manhattan, catapulting Decker and his wife, Rina, into a heart stopping maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe...only to touch down...
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Irish Protestant and Catholic political figures reluctantly meet at Ashworth Hall in hopes of finally resolving the volatile issue of home rule for Ireland. But when a murder is committed, Superintendent Thomas Pitt of Scotland Yard and his clever wife, Charlotte, take over.
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Like the great Victorian novelists whose mantle she wears with such distinction, Anne Perry creates a rich and intimate world and fills it with remarkably vivid characters who experience the majesty-and shame-of the British Empire at its brilliant zenith. Now, in Brunswick Gardens, she explores the controversial birth of a philosophy that enflamed fiery debate-and possibly murder. A century ago, Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution rocked...
10) Half Moon Street
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Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot immediately ascertain exactly what segment of society the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames came from, but the sight of him is unforgettable. Is he, as Pitt fears, a French diplomat who has gone missing? Or merely someone who greatly resembles him?
11) Pentecost Alley
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The ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But under the victim's body the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name Finlay Fitzjames--a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case. Finlay's father--immensely wealthy, powerful, and dangerous--refuses to consider the possibility that his son has...
12) Serpent's tooth
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A gunman walks into a Los Angeles restaurant and opens fire. He kills 13 people and wounds 30, then apparently commits suicide. Apparently, because as Lieutenant Peter Decker discovers, other shots were fired, coming from a different direction.
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 14
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In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a summer holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, non-dramatic holiday. But Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. The Fletcher's simple picnic is interrupted by the discovery of a broken body at the foot of the cliff—that of a local...
15) Gun games
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Lieutenant Detective Decker and his wife, Rina, investigate an apparent teen suicide witnessed by the son of a troubled former friend whom they have welcomed into their home.
16) Seven dials
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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.
18) Day of atonement
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Detective team Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, in Brooklyn for the Jewish High Holy Days after their marriage, find themselves on the trail of an Orthodox teenaged runaway kidnapped by a psychopath.
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Ballantine Books
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2001
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1st ed.
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341 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.
20) Southampton Row
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Ballantine Books
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2002
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1st ed.
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326 p. ; 24 cm.
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When a clairvoyant is found murdered following a late night séance, Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte become entangled in a bitter political battle over a crucial seat in Parliament when they discover that the wife of one candidate participated in the fatal séance.
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