Suffragette avant l'heure, la téméraire Charlotte Ellison n'aime ni l'étiquette ni le badinage des jeunes filles bien nées. Dévorant en cachette les faits-divers des journaux, sa curiosité la mêlera à une affaire des plus périlleuses, aux côtés du séduisant inspecteur Pitt de Scotland Yard. Dans le Londres des années 1880, le danger guette et les femmes en sont souvent la proie... Sherlock Holmes en jupons, la divine Charlotte dénoue son premier crime et inaugure une longue série d'enquêtes haletantes, dévoilant une Angleterre victorienne pleine de secrets.
Charlotte et Thomas Pitt Séries
Plongez dans les rues atmosphériques du Londres victorien avec cette captivante série de mystère. Suivez l'inspecteur de police Thomas Pitt et sa femme intelligente Charlotte alors qu'ils démêlent des affaires complexes pleines d'intrigues sociales et de dangers cachés. Les récits mêlent habilement détails historiques et enquêtes pleines de suspense, offrant un aperçu fascinant de la face cachée d'une société en quête d'ordre. Préparez-vous à un voyage à travers des intrigues complexes où la justice est recherchée au milieu des contrastes saisissants de l'époque.
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Callander Square
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The second novel in the ever-popular series of Victorian whodunits featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, here appearing for the first time in UK paperback. Murders just didn't happen in fashionable, respectable areas like Callander Square -- and yet, there had been two in a short space of time. The police were baffled. But Charlotte Pitt was curious. Inspector Pitt's well-bred wife had not formed the habit of meddling in her husband's business, but something about this case intrigued her -- to the point where she found herself prying into the intimate secrets of the very rich, hearing backstairs gossip that would shock a barmaid, and unearthing truths that could push even the most proper aristocrat to murder.
Paragon Walk
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed: a young woman was raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the aristocratic suspects begin to slip, it became appallingly clear that something ugly lurked behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk -- something that could lead to more scandal, more murder...
Resurrection Row
- 226pages
- 8 heures de lecture
What an odd sight! The dead body of a peer of the realm sitting upright in an empty hansom cab. He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew. There was something terrible amiss. Despite doctor's claims of death by natural causes, Pitt insisted on serious digging to unearth the truth--even if it killed him.
Rutland place
- 314pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Une nouvelle enquête de l'inspecteur Pitt de Scotland Yard et de sa femme Charlotte.
Bluegate Fields
- 275pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Inspector Pitt and his wife Charlotte uncover shocking depravity and unexpected decadence among the aristocracy when the body of a young gentleman turns up in the sewers of the Bluegate Fields slum
When a doctor is found brutally murdered, even the neighborhood's most hardened residents are stunned. But three more bodies are found, killed the same inexpert way, and Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte race against time to find the killer, as a treacherous mystery unfolds. No one, not the lowest brand of ruffian or the most established aristocrat, will come out unscathed....
Cardington Crescent
- 297pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Anne Perry's eighth Victorian mystery finds Charlotte Pitt's brother-in-law murdered, poisoned in his morning coffee.
Silence à Hanover Close
- 378pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Lorsque ses supérieurs lui demandent de rouvrir le dossier d'un meurtre survenu trois ans auparavant dans le somptueux quartier de Hanover Close, Thomas Pitt sait qu'il lui faudra faire preuve de doigté. Mais s'introduire dans la haute société demande plus de finesse que Pitt ne peut en avoir. C'est alors que Charlotte et sa sœur Emily entrent en scène. Elles-mêmes issues de la bonne société, les deux jeunes femmes peuvent entendre des conversations qui n'arriveraient jamais aux oreilles d'un simple policier. Et ce qu'elles vont découvrir pourrait entraîner de nouveaux meurtres - peut-être même celui de Pitt. Une fois encore, Anne Perry nous introduit dans les recoins et les mystères de l'Angleterre victorienne. Avec un talent qui n'exclut pas une certaine perversité.
A series of grisly murders of Members of Parliament puts Inspector Thomas Pitt and his suffragette wife Charlotte at cross-purposes. He believes the main suspect is guilty, and she wants to prove the same suspect--a distraught suffragette with a painful grudge against one of the victims--innocent!
Highgate Rise
- 344pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim—or did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wife’s large fortune? Baffled by the scarcity of clues in this terrible crime, Inspector Thomas Pitt turns to the people who had been closest to the couple—Clemency’s stuffy but distinguished relatives. Meanwhile, Pitt’s wellborn wife, Charlotte, retraces the dangerous path that Clemency walked in the last months of her life, finding herself enmeshed in a sinister web that stretches from the lowest slums to the loftiest centers of power.
Belgrave Square
- 374pages
- 14 heures de lecture
When obscure money lender William Weems is found murdered in the humble Clerkenwell district, Inspector Pitt uses a list found in Weems' office, containing the names of London's most distinguished gentleman, to investigate
Ein sensationeller Mord im Theater erschüttert die Londoner Gesellschaft. Polizeiinspektor Pitt und seine Frau Charlotte hoffen vergebens, einen ungestörten Abend im Theater zu verbringen. Ein paar Logen weiter bricht der ehrenwerte Richter Samuel Stafford tot zusammen. Pitt, der als Spezialist für politisch delikate Fälle bekannt ist, nimmt die Ermittlungen in dem mysteriösen Mordfall auf.
The Hyde Park Headsman
- 343pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Investigating a series of brutal murders that remind Londoners of Jack the Ripper, police superintendent Thomas Pitt and his investigative partner and wife Charlotte uncover a shocking set of clues that are linked to an elusive killer. Reprint.
Traitors Gate
- 432pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Believing that the death of his mentor is related to the actions of a traitor who is leaking secrets to Germany, Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt begins a quiet investigation with the help of his clever wife, Charlotte. Reprint.
Pentecost Alley
- 405pages
- 15 heures de lecture
The murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley should occasion no stir in Victoria’s great metropolis, but under the victim’s body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name “Finlay 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.
Ashworth Hall
- 373pages
- 14 heures de lecture
When a group of powerful Irish Protestants and Catholics gathers to discuss home rule, the meeting's moderator--a government official--winds up dead in his bath, leaving Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his wife to avert an explosion of mayhem. Reprint.
In London's affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, superintendent Thomas Pitt is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--and justice. . . .
Bedford Square
- 408pages
- 15 heures de lecture
When a man is found murdered on the doorstep of a respectable house in Bedford Square, Victorian England's finest and most controversial policeman, Thomas Pitt, is called immediately to the scene. The only clue to the victim's identity is a silver snuff box found on the body, curiously at odds with the man's dishevelled appearance. Pitt soon discovers that the box, and the house where the body was found, belong to General Balantyne, a man Pitt knows to be a pillar of the community. He is dismayed to learn that Balantyne can barely recall the evening, let alone account for his movements.
Half Moon Street
- 284pages
- 10 heures de lecture
En cet automne 1891, Londres semble bien triste au commissaire Thomas Pitt, depuis que sa chère Charlotte est partie se reposer à Paris. Mais il n'a guère le temps de sombrer dans le spleen, car la découverte du corps d'un homme habillé en femme dans une barque, sur la Tamise, l'entraîne dans une nouvelle aventure pleine de mystère. Qui était la victime et pourquoi cette mise en scène macabre ? Aidé de l'irascible sergent Tellman, Pitt fouille les consciences et les cœurs de la haute société, arpentant les coulisses des théâtres où se jouent les pièces d'un certain Oscar Wilde. Gentlemen et ladies irréprochables peuvent parfois cacher de bien dérangeantes vérités...
When evidence presented in court by Thomas Pitt leads to the execution of a distinguished soldier and archaeologist, the retaliation from the hanged man's influential friends is swift. The murderer was a member of the Inner Circle, a group of men whose power extends further than Pitt realised was possible, and, within days, he loses command of the Bow Street police station. To protect him from the Inner Circle's hatred, he is forced to leave his family to work undercover in the dangerously volatile East End.
Southampton Row
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Despite Thomas Pitt's success in the Whitechapel case, the secretive Inner Circle prevent his returning to Bow Street police as Superintendent. Pitt's next task for Special Branch is to investigate Charles Voisy - the corrupt Inner Circle man Pitt defeated in court - who is standing for election as a Tory MP. Pitt must obtain information to stop Voisy's climb to political power. Then Pitt is ordered to Southampton Row, scene of the hideous murder of a spiritual medium. As the link between the spiritualist and political figures is revealed, the whispers of scandal grow louder. And with Charlotte in hiding for safety, Pitt must turn to his sister-in-law, Emily, to help him solve one of his most high-profile cases yet...
Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty’s Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt’s orders are to protect—at all costs—the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. This distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha’s lover, insists that she is as innocent as Pitt himself is. Pitt’s journey to uncover the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to the insidious London slum called Seven Dials, to a packed London courtroom where shocking secrets will at last be revealed. From the Hardcover edition.
Long Spoon Lane (Thomas Pitt Mystery, Book 24)
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
The twenty-fourth breathtaking mystery from master of crime Anne Perry
Buckingham Palace Gardens
- 399pages
- 14 heures de lecture
The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham Palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the prince’s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute turns up in a linen closet among the queen’s monogrammed sheets. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruited to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests’ conversations. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young woman, Pitt’s career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall.
Betrayal at Lisson Grove (Thomas Pitt Mystery, Book 26)
- 438pages
- 16 heures de lecture
The next thrilling instalment of Anne Perry's acclaimed Inspector Thomas Pitt series
“[A] magic kingdom of Victorian murder and intrigue.”—The New York Times Book Review Thomas Pitt is now the powerful head of Britain’s Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. His own self-doubt is fueled by rumors of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line, on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel. But why destroy an entire train to kill one obscure Austrian royal? Are the rumors designed to distract police from an even more devastating plot? Meanwhile, in a London sickroom, an old Italian woman is terrified that as she sinks into dementia, she may divulge secrets from her career as a revolutionary spy. And behind the doors of a stately manor, a beautiful young Croatian woman hoards mysteries of her own. Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, need these two fascinating women to tell them things they desperately need to know—before death and terror ignite an international catastrophe. Includes a preview of Anne Perry’s next Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel, Midnight at Marble Arch “The always clever Anne Perry infuses Dorchester Terrace with the right amount of intrigue and complex relationships that have made this prolific series one of the finest in modern mystery fiction.”—Bookreporter “A classic . . . [a] novel of intrigue, romance and treason . . . replete with well-drawn characters.”—Huntington News
Midnight at Marble Arch
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
This New York Times bestseller has garnered acclaim as one of the best books of the year according to RT Book Reviews. It offers a compelling narrative that captivates readers with its unique themes and engaging characters, making it a standout choice for those seeking an exceptional reading experience.
Death on Blackheath
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So there's no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of Mrs. Kynaston's beautiful lady's maid. But weeks later, when the mutilated body of an unidentified young woman is found near Kynaston's home, Pitt realizes that this is no ordinary police investigation. Far from it. Is Kynaston-one of Britain's most valuable scientists-leading a double life? Is Pitt saddled with a conspiracy so devilishly clever that it will ruin him? A baffled Pitt has never needed his friends more desperately, including his indomitable wife, Charlotte; his canny old colleague Victor Narraway; and his personal drawing-room spy, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. But even these allies may not be able to save Pitt-or Britain
When Commander Thomas Pitt is ordered to protect a young woman visiting London from Spain, he cannot see why this is a job for Special Branch. When she disappears in the dead of night from Angel Court, however, he is faced with a dangerous mystery. Sofia preached new, and some say blasphemous, religious ideals, and her life had been threatened. But Pitt senses there is some deeper and more dangerous reason for her kidnap - if that is what it is. Three men are caught up in the hunt for Sofia - her cousin, a banker for the Church of England, a popular and charismatic politician, and a journalist who seems determined to goad Pitt to the truth. Each seem to be hiding something, and as the search for answers stretches from London to Spain, Pitt knows that time is running out, and the nation's security could be at stake...Angel Court is the thirtieth superb mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt from the master of Victorian crime.
The 31st novel in the popular series featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, along with favourite characters Vespasia and Narraway
Un traître à Kensington Palace
- 381pages
- 14 heures de lecture
In Anne Perry's latest installment of her Victorian mystery series, the stakes are at an all-time high as Thomas Pitt receives a royal summons, signaling a matter of utmost importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, a confidant of the Queen, has been discovered in Hyde Park, showing signs of a fatal head injury. At the Queen's request, Sir John had been discreetly investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast with significant influence over the Prince of Wales. Commander Pitt must navigate the upper echelons of society with caution, as it appears Sir John's murderer is among the elite. With the assistance of his wife, Charlotte, and her social connections, Pitt delves into the hidden motives of the upper class, uncovering a threat to the monarchy that could have dire consequences. As Pitt approaches a pivotal moment in his career, he faces new challenges both professionally and personally. Together with Charlotte, he must unravel the intricacies of a suspenseful plot crafted by Perry, striving for their finest hour while risking the possibility of their darkest.
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Feinde der Krone / Die Frau aus Alexandria
- 816pages
- 29 heures de lecture
FEINDE DER KRONE:London 1892. England steht vor einer entscheidenden Wahl. Um ein politisches Desaster zu vermeiden, erhält Inspektor Pitt einen außergewöhnlichen Auftrag: Er soll verhindern, dass der kriminelle Charles Voisey für das Unterhaus kandidiert. Als kurz darauf eine berühmte Spiritistin ermordet wird, vermutet Pitt einen Zusammenhang - und kommt einem unglaublichen Skandal auf die Spur.DIE FRAU AUS ALEXANDRIA:Die Ägypterin Ayesha Sachari wird in London mit blutigen Händen neben einer Leiche ertappt. Für die Polizei und die Öffentlichkeit ist sie damit die Mörderin. Doch welche Rolle spielt ihr Geliebter, der Minister Saville Ryerson, der in der Mordnacht ebenfalls am Tatort war?
