Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 17
Ashworth Hall
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 373
- ISBN-13
- 9780754020370
- Type
- novel
About this book
Ashworth Hall (1997), the seventeenth entry at 373 pages, sits between Pentecost Alley and Brunswick Gardens. Like much of the series at this stage, it turns on the secrets -- inheritance, sexual hypocrisy, social ambition -- that Victorian respectability was built to hide.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Ashworth Hall is book 17 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Pentecost Alley. It is followed by Brunswick Gardens. See the full Charlotte and Thomas Pitt reading order.
Thomas Pitt is a Metropolitan Police inspector of unusually good education for his working-class rank, which lets Anne Perry send him convincingly into the drawing rooms of Victorian high society whenever a murder implicates the respectable classes rather than the criminal ones. He marries Charlotte, a gentry-born woman who married beneath her station for love and who investigates alongside him -- through her own social access, her sister Emily's even higher connections, and her elderly relative's old-fashioned…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754020370