Highgate Rise (The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1419345648 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Having temporarily abandoned Victorian police inspector Thomas Pitt and his highborn wife, Charlotte, in her last, highly acclaimed novel, The Face of a Stranger , Perry features the duo once again. And her focus on a social issue--the secret ownership by members of high society of appalling slum housing--lends depth to the mystery surrounding the death of Clemency Shaw, a courageous woman who devoted her life-- and may have lost it--to exposing those who built their fortunes on the misery of the poor. Highgate is a posh Victorian neighborhood that becomes the scene of some highly dramatic house fires that consume people dear to Dr. She exhibits her customary skill in recreating 19th-century London, but here her well-drawn contrasts of upstairs and downstairs Victorian society hav
"Another good mystery in the series. Unfortunately, the proof readers remain asleep @ the wheel!" according to Rhys Bartlett. I have been enjoying the Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Victorian mystery series from the beginning over the past few months on my Kindle. I like some of the supporting characters even more those in the main. I do hope Great Aunt Vespasia lives to be well north of a century old. She is singularly fabulous!My apologies to Ms. Perry, but I would be remiss if I failed to mention the abject failure of the copy editing -- which, through the course of my reading these Amazon Kindle editions, has worsened to the point of distraction- typos that change the meaning of. NOT WHAT IT SEEMS When a fire breaks out on Highgate Rise, the wife, Clemency, is burned alive, Pitt suspects that her husband, Dr. Scott may have been the arsonist and had lit the fire to kill his wife, in order to collect her large fortune. The good doctor goes to stay with a nearby neighbor and the neighbors house also burns down and the neighbor is killed in the blaze. Each time there is a fire, the doctor is out on a call. Now the doctor really does look like the arsonist rather than the intended victim, but the wife also has a past that might have put her in harms. "Mildly addictive for those who enjoy the genre" according to Thomas Yarborough. Anne Perry is a gifted writer who weaves engaging stories of people from nearly every class of Late Victorian England. Can come across as somewhat preachy at times, but the intricacies and twists and turns in her plots are related in an engaging style which draws the reader in. Mildly addictive for those who enjoy the genre.
"Perry gets the Victorian mood just rightSettle in with this one on a rainy day."BOOKLISTClemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire. 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.. 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