Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 14
The Hyde Park Headsman
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 343
- ISBN-13
- 9780449223505
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hyde Park Headsman (1994), the fourteenth novel at 343 pages, followed Farrier's Lane and pushed the series' murder plotting into one of London's most public spaces. It continues the run's steady mid-1990s publishing pace, one novel roughly every year.
Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
The Hyde Park Headsman is book 14 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Farrier's Lane. It is followed by Traitors 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 9780449223505