For Pitt and Charlotte, what begins as a mysterious case of musical corpses, becomes a deadly pursuit through the London underworld of pornographic photographers, brothels, and sweatshops.
After a wonderful night at the theatre, Thomas and Charlotte find themselves confronted with a corpse in the drivers seat of a hansom cab. As Pitt follows leads into the slums and rookeries, Charlotte, too, is drawn into the politics and horrors of greed and exploitation. Fourth in the series of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries, Anne Perrys Resurrection Row explores the dark undercurrents that run through the lives of the idle rich in Victorian England.
A new mother, Charlotte Pitt only takes a cursory interest in the grave robbing case until she hears Thomas mention the name of her late sister's husband, Dominic Corde, as a possible suspect. : Resurrection Row (9780449210673) by Perry, Anne and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The case grows increasingly bizarre as other disinterred bodies appear. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the man's corpse is found sitting in the family pew the Sunday following his second interment, Pitt begins to wonder if perhaps there's some message in it. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn't Inspector Thomas Pitt's usual fare. This book title, Resurrection Row (A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel), ISBN: 9780345513991, by Anne Perry, published by Random House Publishing Group. Lord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. "For readers longing to be in 1890s London, Perry's tales are just the ticket" ( Chicago Tribune).
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