Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 16
Pentecost Alley
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 405
- ISBN-13
- 9780679448358
- Type
- novel
About this book
Pentecost Alley (1996), the sixteenth novel at 405 pages, followed Traitors Gate and continues the series' recurring pattern: a murder among the respectable classes whose solution depends on Charlotte's social access as much as Thomas's police authority.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Pentecost Alley is book 16 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Traitors Gate. It is followed by Ashworth Hall. 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 9780679448358