Charlotte and Thomas Pitt · Book 21

The Whitechapel Conspiracy

by Anne Perry

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
341
ISBN-13
9783453772137
Type
novel

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About this book

The Whitechapel Conspiracy (2001), the twenty-first entry at 341 pages, is where the series visibly widens from drawing-room murder toward the Establishment conspiracy and political intrigue that define its later run, as Thomas's career pushes him toward the unwanted Special Branch posting the synopsis describes. It followed Half Moon Street.

Its place in Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

The Whitechapel Conspiracy is book 21 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It follows Half Moon Street. It is followed by Southampton Row. 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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