Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 5
Rutland Place
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780345514035
- Type
- novel
About this book
Rutland Place (1983), the fifth entry at 240 pages, arrived after a two-year gap and continues the Pitts' investigations into secrets among people with everything to lose from exposure -- inheritance, hypocrisy, social ambition -- the recurring engine of the series' plots.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Rutland Place is book 5 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Resurrection Row. It is followed by Bluegate Fields. 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 9780345514035