‘PENTECOST ALLEY demonstrates Perry’s trademark skill for enhancing well-designed mystery plots with convincing historical settings and cleverly drawn relationships... As Perry edges towards her surprise ending, she crafts her tale with elegance, narrative depth and gratifying scope’
Publishers Weekly
‘The Pitt books are characterised by well-observed period detail, a fascination with miscarriages of justice and the high drama of the law, and intense scrutiny of family secrets.’
Robert McCrum
‘Excellent period thriller... admirably well-written’
Guardian
In the sixteenth murder mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, their detective wits are stretched to the limit as a grotesque death sparks off an investigation into horrific hidden scandals.
It is barely two years since the prostitutes of London’s East End were terrorised by Jack the Ripper. Now, in dismal Pentecost Alley, a killer is at work in the backstreets of Whitechapel once more. Not that the grisly murder of a mere whore is enough to merit the expertise of Superintendent Pitt of Bow Street. Society regards such women as less than human, deserving all they get. But beneath the mutilated body of the young girl there is a strange badge. The insignia proclaims it to be an emblem of the Hellfire Club, and on the back is engraved the name of Finlay FitzJames.
So begins Pitt’s curious association with the wealthy and immensly influential FitzJames family: Augustus, the powerful bully of a father; bored, glamorous Tallulah; and foppish Finlay, born into privilege and happy to make use of it. Pitt cannot afford to make one false move. For what Victorian jury would take the word of a common prostitute against that of a FitzJames?
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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Pentecost Alley (A Victorian murder mystery) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Nº de ref. del artículo: 7719-9780006498186
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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Nº de ref. del artículo: 6545-9780006498186
Descripción Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading and cover creases, small sticker to rear cover. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo from the Mary Evans Picture Library. ; 416 pages; A Victorian murder mystery. Barely two years since the prostitutes of London's east End were terrorised by Jack the Ripper, a killer once more is at work in Whitechapel. The victim is found in Pentecost Alley, normally not a case that would come to the attention of Superintendent Pitt of Bow Street. But beneath the mutilated body of the woman was found a strange badge, seeming ly the insignia of the notorious Hell Fire Club, and on the back a name, Finlay FitzJames, a member of one of the wealthiest and most influential families in the land. Mass Market PB. Nº de ref. del artículo: 26413
Descripción Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 405 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 1998. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has minor lean and moderate reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley should occasion no stir in Victoriass great metropolis, but under the victim's body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the nameFinlay Fitzjames- a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case. Finlay's father - immensely wealthy, powerful, and dangerous - refuses to consider the possibility that his son has been in Ada McKinley's bed. The implication is clear: Pitt is to arrest someone other than Finlay Fitzjames for Ada's demise. But Thomas Pitt is not a man to be intimidated, and with the help of his quick-witted wife, Charlotte, he stubbornly pursues his investigation - one that twists and turns like London's own ancient streets. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0006498183. ISBN/EAN: 9780006498186. Inventory No: 21110145. Nº de ref. del artículo: 21110145
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