Rutland Place
By Anne Perry
(Fawcett, Mass Market Paperback, 9780449212851, 224pp.)
Publication Date: August 12, 1986
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Historical, Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
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"When Anne Perry puts Thomas and Charlotte Pitt on the case, we are in exemplary Victorian company."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
When Charlotte Pitt, well-born wife of Thomas Pitt, the police investigator, learned of her mother's distress in losing a locket with a compromising picture, she did not know it was the beginning of several bizarre events that would end in sudden death. For hidden behind the sumptuous elegance of Ruthland Place were terrible secrets. Secrets so horrifying that only murder could conceal them. And only the dogged persistence of Charlotte and Thomas could reveal them....
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade,and We Shall Not Sleep, as well as six holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Grace. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
“When Anne Perry puts Thomas and Charlotte Pitt on the case, we are in exemplary Victorian company.”—New York Times
“Perry is my choice for today’s best mystery writer of Victoriana.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Perry is a forceful plotter and a consistently polished writer.”—Seattle Weekly
“Perry’s Victorian novels attain the societal sweep of Trollope or Thackeray.”—Booklist, starred review
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