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Charlotte et Thomas Pitt

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.

Ein Mann aus bestem Hause
Rutland place
Resurrection Row
Paragon Walk
Callander Square
L'Étrangleur de Cater Street

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. L'Étrangleur de Cater Street

    • 381pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    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.

    L'Étrangleur de Cater Street1
    3,7
  2. Callander Square

    • 263pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    Murders just don’t happen in fashionable areas like Callander Square–but these two have. The police are totally baffled. Pretty, young Charlotte Ellison Pitt, however, is curious. Inspector Pitt’s well-bred wife doesn’t often meddle in her husband’s business, but something about this case intrigues her–to the point that staid Charlotte Pitt is suddenly rattling the closets of the very rich, seeking out backstairs gossip that would shock a barmaid, and unearthing truths that could push even the most proper aristocrat to murder.

    Callander Square2
    3,8
  3. 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...

    Paragon Walk3
    3,7
  4. 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.

    Resurrection Row4
    3,9
  5. Rutland place

    • 314pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    Une nouvelle enquête de l'inspecteur Pitt de Scotland Yard et de sa femme Charlotte.

    Rutland place5
    3,8
  6. When an upper-class boy is found violated and dead in London's most dangerous slums, Inspector Pitt is shocked. But when the Waybournes, the boy's family, refuse to answer the police's questions, Inspector Pitt begins to wonder what secrets they were trying to hide. His wife and helpmeet, Charlotte, is determined to find out—even it if means tearing down the facades of an oh-so-proper family.... "The period detail remains fascinating, and [Perry's] grasp of Victorian character and conscience still astonishes." THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

    Ein Mann aus bestem Hause6
    3,9
  7. Mort à Devil's Acre

    • 285pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    L'adorable Charlotte Pitt ajoute de l'espièglerie aux enquêtes de son inspecteur de mari. Aussi fine guêpes qu'il est gros souliers, elle est prompte à ouvrir les boudoirs, derrière le five o'clock tea et les façades respectables, une sensualité d'autant plus dévastatrice qu'elle est honteuse.

    Mort à Devil's Acre7
    3,9
  8. 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.

    Cardington Crescent8
    4,0
  9. 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.

    Silence à Hanover Close9
    4,0
  10. L'Egorgeur de Westminster bridge

    • 379pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    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!

    L'Egorgeur de Westminster bridge10
    3,9
  11. Highgate Rise

    • 342pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    When the wife of Dr. Shaw dies in a deliberately set fire, Inspector Thomas Pitt searches for clues to the baffling crime in a Victorian London full of dark family secrets. Reprint. NYT. PW. AB.

    Highgate Rise11
    3,5
  12. 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

    Belgrave Square12
    3,8
  13. Farriers' Lane

    • 432pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    Investigating the poisoning death of a distinguished judge, Inspector Pitt finds himself haunted by a grisly murder committed in desolate Farrier's Lane five years before

    Farriers' Lane13
    4,1
  14. 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.

    The Hyde Park Headsman14
    4,0
  15. 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.

    Traitors Gate15
    3,9
  16. The ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily 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....

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt: Pentecost Alley16
    4,0
  17. 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.

    Ashworth Hall17
    3,7
  18. Brunswick Gardens

    • 416pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    In Victorian England, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt venture into an Anglican church to find out who murdered a pretty advocate of Darwin's theories

    Brunswick Gardens18
    3,9
  19. Charlotte and Thomas Pitt: Bedford Square

    A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel - International Edition

    • 327pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home. But Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him. For in the dead man's pocket he finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general's study. He must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web. Pitt's clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in probing this masterpiece of evil, spawned by an amorality greater than they can imagine . . .

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt: Bedford Square19
    3,8
  20. 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...

    Half Moon Street20
    3,9
  21. 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.

    The Whitechapel Conspiracy21
    4,1
  22. Southampton Row

    • 352pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    When a clairvoyant is found murdered following a late night sâeance, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt become entangled in a battle over a crucial seat in Parliament when they discover that the wife of one candidate participated in the fatal sâeance.

    Southampton Row22
    3,8
  23. Thomas Pitt is summoned to the offices of Victor Narraway, head of the Imperial Secret Service. An ex-army officer and promising young diplomat has been shot and the prime suspect is the Egyptian mistress of a senior cabinet minister. But some things don't add up at the scene of the murder. When the Egyptian Ambassador puts in a call to Prime Minister Gladstone, it seems a major diplomatic row is brewing. Thomas is convinced Narraway knows more than he claims, and Pitt's wife Charlotte fears there could be involvement with the secret organisation that destroyed Pitt's Metropolitan Police career and nearly cost him his life. Can Pitt tread the tense diplomatic tightrope between protecting justice, the security of his country, and the safety of his family?

    Seven Dials23
    4,1
  24. 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.

    Buckingham Palace Gardens25
    4,0
  25. “[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

    Dorchester Terrace: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel27
    4,1
  26. 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.

    Midnight at Marble Arch28
    4,0
  27. 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.

    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel: Death on Blackheath29
    3,9
  28. 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 Angel Court Affair30
    3,9
  29. 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.

    Un traître à Kensington Palace32
    3,9

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