Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 1
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.
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