Seven Dials (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590865006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 443 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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LOgalfromOR said Bravo to Perry!. Just when you think it can't get any better, along comes Anne Perry's Seven Dials. The unfolding story and plot(s) kept me from putting this book down. It is masterfully intertwined with Victorian England and Alexandria, Egypt and a who dunnit murder and mystery, with a thick. PTSD in Victorian England Sheila Berry I became interested in reading Anne Perry's fiction after I read "Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century." In 1954, Ms. Perry, then Juliet Hulme, and her best friend, Pauline Parker, bludgeoned Pauline's mother to death. It seems to me that a person doesn't commit a gruesom. Lots of tension and so much wonderful information. I really like the relationship between Charlotte Jeanne Lachance5 stars and will eant to read yhe rrst. This book kept me glued to it. Lots of tension and so much wonderful information. I really like the relationship between Charlotte and Pitt. Also the wonderful way Charlotte needs to solve her own mysteries with her maid. Oh my how I love Lady Vespatis, forgive my spelling. G
Could it be true? In the dead man’s less-than-stellar reputation, Pitt finds hope. This distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha’s lover, insists that she is as innocent as he is himself. In the first gray of a mid-September morning, Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty’s Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. For there, Pitt receives intimations of deadly entanglements stretching from Egyptian cotton fields to Manchester cotton mills, from the noxious London slum known as Seven Dials to the madhouse called Bedlam. With Pitt and his clients racing against the hangman, the trial reaches its pulse-pumping climax.. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. But in ancient Alexandria, where the victim was once an army officer, hope grows dim. Meanwhile, in a packed courtroom
While Pitt is in Egypt, his wife, Charlotte, occupies herself with a more mundane matter--the disappearance of a valet whose sister is a friend of the Pitt's housemaid. London detective Thomas Pitt is investigating the murder of a junior diplomat by a notorious Egyptian woman and her lover, a senior Cabinet minister involved in negotiating the conflict between Egypt's cotton growers and England's textile industry. --Jane Adams. Perry, the author of two Victorian-era series (the other stars investigator William Monk), does her usual fine job of bringing the colorful time period alive, helped along by the details of domestic life