Highgate Rise
By Anne Perry
(Fawcett, Mass Market Paperback, 9780449219591, 352pp.)
Publication Date: April 22, 1992
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
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"Perry gets the Victorian mood just right...Settle in with this one on a rainy day."
BOOKLIST
Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire. But whether the blaze was set by an arsonist aiming for the doctor, or set by the doctor himself, Inspector Thomas Pitt isn't certain. With the scarcity of clues, Pitt turns to Clemency's stuffy, but distinguished, relatives. Meanwhile, Pitt's wellborn wife, Charlotte, retraces the dangerous path that Clemency walked the last months of her life, and finds herself enmeshed in a sinister web that stretches from the lowest slums to the loftiest centers of power....
“When it comes to the Victorian mystery, Anne Perry has proved that nobody does it better.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
“Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil, and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes pop.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Perry gets the Victorian mood just right. . . . Settle in with this one on a rainy day.”—Booklist
“Descriptions of London’s Upstairs/Downstairs society [are] historically illuminating.”—St. Petersburg Times
“Rounded out by a host of lively characters, this is a memorable tale.”—Publishers Weekly
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