The Cater Street hangman [large print] / Anne Perry.
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TextSeries: Center Point large print | Perry, Anne. Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel ; | Center Point large printPublisher: Thorndike, ME : Center Point Pub., [2000]Copyright date: ©1979Edition: Large print editionDescription: 364 pages (large print) ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1585470023
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
While the Ellison girls are paying social calls, one of their housemaids becomes the third in a series of young women murdered in a genteel Victorian London neighborhood. As the investigation proceeds, uppercrust facades begin to crumble, and Pitt relies on help from the unconventional Charlotte Ellison. Although drawn to her, the Inspector knows that a romance between a lady and a policeman is unthinkable. . . .
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Kirkus Book Review
A hearty mystery/romance in which a household of women in 1881 London, bred to good works and sipping tea behind the bombazine curtain of Victorian purdah, experience some liberating enlightenment as well as tragedy. It all begins when five young women--including one of the Ellison family housemaids--are horribly murdered in the foggy streets outside the staid Ellison home. Inside that home, daughters Charlotte and Emily and Sarah are kept on a tight rein--by banker papa Edward and Sarah's easy-going husband Dominic. But the Victorian facades begin to crumble when police Inspector Pitt arrives to ask questions about those murders: he's an informal upstart who intrigues shrewdly flirtatious Emily (who has set her bonnet for handsome Lord Ashworth) and especially rebellious, curious Charlotte. Then Inspector Pitt's investigations begin drawing closer and closer to home, and while suspicion flickers over Ashworth, Dominic, and even upright Edward, the women are treated to a view of some dry rot on the masculine side of the double standard. There's a final tragedy within the family, and at last Charlotte is wrenched from the arms of the murderer into those of Inspector Pitt. You may well spot the killer before then--but Perry's easy, irreverent Victoriana is the real attraction here, not the mystery. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Anne Perry was born Juliet Hume on October 28, 1938 in Blackheath, London.Sent to Christchurch, New Zealand to recover from a childhood case of severe pneumonia, she became very close friends with another girl, Pauline Parker. When Perry's family abandoned her, she had only Parker to turn to, and when the Parkers planned to move from New Zealand, Parker asked that Perry be allowed to join them. When Parker's mother disagreed, Perry and Parker bludgeoned her to death. Perry eventually served five and a half years in an adult prison for the crime.
Once she was freed, she changed her name and moved to America, where she eventually became a writer. Her first Victorian novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published in 1979. Although the truth of her past came out when the case of Mrs. Parker's murder was made into a movie (Heavenly Creatures), Perry is still a popular author and continues to write. She has written over 50 books and short story collections including the Thomas Pitt series, the William Monk series, and the Daniel Pitt series. Her story, Heroes, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Her title's Blind Justice and The Angel Court Affair made The New York Times Best Seller List.
(Bowker Author Biography)