Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 30
The Angel Court Affair
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 273
- ISBN-13
- 9780553391350
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Angel Court Affair (2015), the thirtieth novel at 273 pages, followed Death on Blackheath and continues the late-series pattern of Establishment conspiracy and political stakes that replaced the drawing-room murders of the earliest books, though the core partnership between Thomas and Charlotte remains unchanged.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
The Angel Court Affair is book 30 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Death on Blackheath. It is followed by Treachery at Lancaster Gate. 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 9780553391350