Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 7
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.
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