Death in the Devil's Acre
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780345514042
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death in the Devil's Acre (1985), the seventh entry at 288 pages, followed Bluegate Fields as Anne Perry's Victorian London setting continued to widen beyond the drawing rooms of the earliest books. Charlotte's investigative partnership with Thomas, still a working inspector at this stage of the series, remains central.
Key facts about Death in the Devil's Acre
Death in the Devil's Acre is a novel by Anne Perry. Readers have had it since 1985. It runs to 288 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Death in the Devil's Acre. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345514042 to find the main one.
Death in the Devil's Acre is book 7 of 32 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. The series has 32 published books. However, the series starts with The Cater Street Hangman (1979).
Additionally, Anne Perry writes William Monk, The Christmas Novellas and The World War I Novels, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our historical mystery and historical fiction shelves.
About Anne Perry
Anne Perry was a British author who became one of historical mystery's most prolific and respected voices, best known for two long-running Victorian detective series: the William Monk novels, following an amnesiac police investigator turned private inquiry agent, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, pairing a Scotland Yard inspector with his socially connected wife. See every Anne Perry book in order.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Death in the Devil's Acre is book 7 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Bluegate Fields. It is followed by Cardington Crescent. 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 9780345514042