Long Spoon Lane (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597373400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
One of the best of the Pitt novels I have read many of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novels; I would put this one up amongst the best, along with the one about Lisson Grove.. This is great historical reference to the times of the English police The continuing story of Pitt & Charlotte are moving into the end of the 1890's. The anarchist movement is now a threat to the police and Special Branch. This is great historical reference to the times of the English police system and how it grows to be accepted & respected.. Good summer read prissreads Political intrique and murder in a very typical victorian setting. I always enjoy Anne Peter's handling of a plot intricate and interesting. Long Spoon Lane is a worthy read.
While flower sellers, costermongers, shopkeepers, and hansom drivers ply their trades, the London police watch over all. The police are running a lucrative protection racket, and clues suggest that Inspector Wetron of Bow Street is the mastermind. To defeat Wetron, Pitt finds that he must run in harness with his old enemy, Sir Charles Voisey, and the unlikely allies are joined by Pitt’s clever wife, Charlotte, and her great aunt, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. As the shadowy leader of the Inner Circle, Wetron is using his influence with the press to whip up fears of more attacks - and to rush a bill through Parliament that would severely curtail civil liberties. Anne Perry’s bestselling Victorian novels offer readers an elixir as addictively rich as Devonshire cream and English ale - enticing millions into a literary world almost as real as the original. Can they prevail? As they strive t
Pitt and fellow detective Victor Narraway soon find themselves up against a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle. Perry manages to paint a convincing historical backdrop with echoes of modern-day fears of urban terrorism. . The action slows when myriad characters, including wives, servants and politicians, hold excessively detailed discussions of the case, but the pace picks up with a spirited pursuit through London and across the Thames. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. True-to-life parliamentary debate ensues over how much power police should be granted to quash the anarchist threat to Queen and country. The chase leads to the group's lair in an abandoned building along grimy Long Spoon Lane, where the body o