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"Perry gets the Victorian mood just right...Settle in with this one on a rainy day."BOOKLISTClemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire. But whether the blaze was set by an arsonist aiming for the doctor, or set by the doctor himself, Inspector Thomas Pitt isn't certain. With the scarcity of clues, Pitt turns to Clemency's stuffy, but distinguished, relatives. Meanwhile, Pitt's wellborn wife, Charlotte, retraces the dangerous path that Clemency walked the last months of her life, and finds herself enmeshed in a sinister web that stretches from the lowest slums to the loftiest centers of power....From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Series: The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery Series
Audio CD
Publisher: Recorded Books; Unabridged edition (June 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419345648
ISBN-13: 978-1419345647
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 6.3 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
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I have been enjoying the Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Victorian mystery series from the beginning over the past few months on my Kindle. I like some of the supporting characters even more those in the main. I do hope Great Aunt Vespasia lives to be well north of a century old. She is singularly fabulous!My apologies to Ms. Perry, but I would be remiss if I failed to mention the abject failure of the copy editing -- which, through the course of my reading these Kindle editions, has worsened to the point of distraction- typos that change the meaning of a sentence, essential to complete a sentence are missing, & adjacent words lacking the space between. This has increased in frequency with each volume in this series. & Kindle edition authors:If we are to be charged the same as or more than the price of a mass market paperback, the digital version should be held to @ least the same professional publishing standard.Please don't assume the digital versions supplied by the publisher are the press-ready for print versions. They are not. They are likely from a derivative of the sales department. The terms "final draft" & "press-ready" are NOT interchangeable.As such, I respectfully suggest you, a) insist the publisher provide a press-ready digital copy- the one that was uploaded to the printing press or, b) renegotiate a lower wholesale price with publishers & hire in-house professional copy editors - perhaps from a pool of those having actually attended J school with experience proofing digital work destined for a printing press!
This is the 11th in the CHARLOTTE AND THOMAS PITT series of historical mysteries.The novel opens in September a few weeks after the events of BETHLEHEM ROAD. Thomas has been called out to investigate a crime - a fire with suspicious origins that has claimed the life of a woman, the wife of a physician. As Thomas began to make his inquiries he began to wonder if perhaps the true target of the obviously purposely set fire had been the doctor rather than his wife, Clemency. By all accounts Clemency had been a typical physician's wife, concerned only with managing their comfortable household, caring for her husband and occupying her spare time with good works among the deserving poor. Hardly a person to attract attention and yet.....Once more Charlotte was drawn into the investigation, this time by her overbearing grandmother no less! And Charlotte was not the only one to get involved, her sister Emily, Emily's new husband Jack, Aunt Vespasia and even Gracie, the housemaid, also become a part of the investigations. Among them they uncover some of Society's dirty little secrets, who was sneaking around to see a married man? who had a secret past? and just how did people finance their oh so comfortable lives? As the answers are revealed the question became not who would want to kill Clemency but who would not.As is typical for this series the author has managed to reveal another aspect of Victorian life, this time the deplorable conditions thousands endured in city slums and the powerful, 'respectable' members of Society who profited from their misery. The various threads of the story, the current mystery, the on going story arc and the historical information are all woven together skillfully to craft an excellent story.
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