Brunswick Gardens: 18 (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt) - Softcover

Perry, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345523709 ISBN 13: 9780345523709

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2011

Synopsis

In London's affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is as certain as he can be that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter? His handsome curate? Or his son, a fervent Roman Catholic? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--or less than justice.

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From the Back Cover:

'Brunswick Gardens' is the new murder mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, the sharpest detectives in Victorian London.

The conservative clergy of the Church of England is under attack from the growing popularity of Darwinism. But is it really such a threat to Reverend Parmeter that he killed his assistant for believing in it? Superintendent Pitt is called in to prevent a scandal. Parmenter was about to be made bishop, and his assistant was an uncommonly beautiful young woman.

What seems to be a tragically cut-and-dried case turns into a series of ugly revelations about the politics of the church, the dubious personal lives of its clerics, their ambitions thwarted, promises unfulfilled, passions frustrated. As the Parmenter family struggles under the pressures of private grief and public duty, Pitt encounters a figure from his own past who augurs trouble wherever he goes.

Anne Perry has established a reputation for murder mysteries of the highest quality. She was born in London and lived abroad for some time before settling into her present home in the Scottish highlands. She is a full-time writer.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0345523709
• ISBN 13: 9780345523709
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400