The Cater Street Hangman
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 247
- ISBN-13
- 9780709177265
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Cater Street Hangman (1979, 247 pages) opens the series and is where Charlotte and Thomas Pitt first fall for each other -- she a gentry-born woman marrying beneath her station for love, he a police inspector unusually well-educated for his rank. It's lighter in tone than the espionage-inflected books that close out the run three decades later.
Key facts about The Cater Street Hangman
The Cater Street Hangman is a novel by Anne Perry. Readers have had it since 1979. It runs to 247 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Cater Street Hangman. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780709177265 to find the main one.
The Cater Street Hangman is book 1 of 32 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. The series has 32 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Anne Perry writes William Monk, The Christmas Novellas and The World War I Novels, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our historical mystery and historical fiction shelves.
About Anne Perry
Anne Perry was a British author who became one of historical mystery's most prolific and respected voices, best known for two long-running Victorian detective series: the William Monk novels, following an amnesiac police investigator turned private inquiry agent, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, pairing a Scotland Yard inspector with his socially connected wife. See every Anne Perry book in order.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
The Cater Street Hangman is book 1 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It is followed by Callander Square. 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 9780709177265