Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 6
Bluegate Fields
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 398
- ISBN-13
- 9780285630680
- Type
- novel
About this book
Bluegate Fields (1984), the sixth novel and at 398 pages one of the longer entries so far, followed Rutland Place as the series pushed further into the darker undercurrents beneath Victorian respectability. Thomas's working-class rank and unusual education continue to be what let him cross between London's criminal and respectable worlds.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Bluegate Fields is book 6 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Rutland Place. It is followed by Death in the Devil's Acre. 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 9780285630680