Half Moon Street
By Anne Perry
(Ballantine Books, Mass Market Paperback, 9780449006559, 320pp.)
Publication Date: January 2, 2001
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Historical, Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective - Series
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For superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. He lies in a battered punt drifting through the morning mist, his arms and legs chained to the boat's sides. He is clad in a torn green gown and flowers bestrew his battered body.
Pitt's determined search for answers to the victim's identity leads him deep into London's bohemia to the theatre where beautiful Cecily Antrim is outraging society with her bold portrayal of a modern woman--and into studios where masters of light and shadow are experimenting with the fascinating new art of photography. But only Pitt's most relentless pursuit enables him to identify the wildfire passions raging through this tragedy of good and evil, to hunt down the guilty and protect the
innocent.
Among Anne Perry's other novels featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt are The Whitechapel Conspiracy, Bedford Square, Brunswick Gardens, Ashworth Hall, Traitors Gate, and The Hyde Park Headsman. She also writes the popular novels featuring Victorian private investigator William Monk--among them Slaves of Obsession, The Twisted Root, A Breach of Promise, The Silent Cry, and Weighed in the Balance. "Her grasp of Victorian character and conscience still astonishes," said the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hundreds of thousands of readers in Europe and America agree.
Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
"EVOCATIVE . . . SHOCKING . . . The denouement is tense, with a few unexpected twists and with the tidiness and intelligence that make Perry the queen of the British historical mystery."
--Chicago Tribune
"PERRY HAS THE GREAT GIFT OF MAKING IT ALL SEEM IMMEDIATE AND VERY MUCH ALIVE."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
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