Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 24
Long Spoon Lane
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN-13
- 9781596002739
- Type
- novel
About this book
Long Spoon Lane (2005), the twenty-fourth novel at 338 pages, arrived after the longest gap yet in the series' publication history, following Seven Dials. It continues the political and Establishment-conspiracy focus that has defined the run since The Whitechapel Conspiracy.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Long Spoon Lane is book 24 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Seven Dials. It is followed by Buckingham Palace 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 9781596002739