Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 22

Southampton Row

by Anne Perry

Published
1 January 2002
Pages
416
ISBN-13
9781593351663
Type
novel

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Cover of Southampton Row

About this book

Southampton Row (2002), the twenty-second novel at 416 pages, continues the more overtly political register The Whitechapel Conspiracy opened the year before. It followed that book as Thomas's rising rank pulled the series further from its original Bow Street beat.

Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

Southampton Row is book 22 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows The Whitechapel Conspiracy. It is followed by Seven Dials. 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…

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