Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 8
Cardington Crescent
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9780345514073
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cardington Crescent (1987), the eighth novel at 312 pages, arrived after a gap of nearly three years and keeps the Pitts working a case among the respectable classes, the series' recurring target since The Cater Street Hangman. It preceded Silence in Hanover Close.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Cardington Crescent is book 8 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Death in the Devil's Acre. It is followed by Silence in Hanover Close. 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 9780345514073