Long Spoon Lane (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1480513814 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 498 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kinkeeper said 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 This is great historical reference to the times of the English police The continuing story of Pitt & Charlotte are moving into the end of the 1890's. The anarchist movement is now a threat to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 This is great historical reference to the times of the English police system and how it grows to be accepted & respected..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 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.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Pitt and fellow detective Victor Narraway soon find themselves up against a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle. The chase leads to the group's lair in an abandoned building along grimy Long Spoon Lane, where the body of Magnus Landsborough, son of a well-connected lord, raises disturbing questions about both the young man's association with the underground cell and police procedures to combat terrorists. . Perry manages to paint a convincing historical backdrop with echoes of modern-day fears of urban terrorism. True-to-life parliamentary debate ensues over how much power police should be granted to quash the anarchist threat to Queen and country. From Publishers Weekly Carnage comes early in Perry's engrossing Victorian historical, the follow-up to Seven Dials (2003), when Special
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. 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. Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot but by whom? As Pitt delves into the case, he finds that there is more to the terrorism than the destructive gestures of misguided idealists. Can they prevail? As they strive to prevent future destruction, nothing less than the fate of the British Empire hangs in precarious balance.. Anne Perry’s bestselling Victorian novels o