Callander Square
Published on 14. June 2011
254 pages
978-1-4532-1907-2 (ISBN)
Description
Someone on posh Callander Square will kill to keep a secret in this "superior" mystery from the
New York Times-bestselling author of
Twenty-One Days (
The San Diego Union-Tribune).
When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered lives. Pitt is not convinced that the case should be so easily dropped. Also intrigued by the mystery, Pitt's well-born wife, Charlotte, pursues her own investigation into places Thomas would never have access-the parlors and inner chambers of the mansions on the fashionable square. With her sister Emily, Lady Ashworth, who lives on Callander Square, she delves into the lives and secrets of the residents. Thomas and Charlotte, now expecting their first child, form the perfect sleuthing couple. Elegant closets soon spill their skeletons exposing long-hidden secrets-secrets that could lead even the most upright aristocrat to kill.
But will Pitt's keen investigative skills and Charlotte's insights into the workings of high-class society solve the mystery in time to save the innocent residents of Callander Square from the murderer among them?
Callander Square is the 2nd book in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered lives. Pitt is not convinced that the case should be so easily dropped. Also intrigued by the mystery, Pitt's well-born wife, Charlotte, pursues her own investigation into places Thomas would never have access-the parlors and inner chambers of the mansions on the fashionable square. With her sister Emily, Lady Ashworth, who lives on Callander Square, she delves into the lives and secrets of the residents. Thomas and Charlotte, now expecting their first child, form the perfect sleuthing couple. Elegant closets soon spill their skeletons exposing long-hidden secrets-secrets that could lead even the most upright aristocrat to kill.
But will Pitt's keen investigative skills and Charlotte's insights into the workings of high-class society solve the mystery in time to save the innocent residents of Callander Square from the murderer among them?
Callander Square is the 2nd book in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Anne Perry (1938-2023) was a bestselling author of historical detective fiction, most notably the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series and the William Monk series, both set in Victorian England. Her first book,
The Cater Street Hangman(1979), launched both the Pitt series and her career as a premier writer of Victorian mysteries. Other novels in the series include
Resurrection Row,
Death in the Devil's Acre, and
Silence in Hanover Close, as well as more than twenty others. The William Monk series of novels, featuring a Victorian police officer turned private investigator, includes
Funeral in Blue,
The Twisted Root, and
The Silent Cry. In addition to these series, Perry also authored the World War I novels
No Graves as Yet,
Shoulder the Sky,
Angels in the Gloom, and others, as well as several collections of short stories. Perry's novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world and have sold more than twenty-five million books in print worldwide.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- Preview: Paragon Walk
- Copyright
