In the sequel to Southampton Row, Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch must tread a narrow line between justice and scandal as he investigates the murder of a junior diplomat, whose body turns up at a Connaught Square mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson. Reprint.
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Among Anne Perry’s other novels featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt are Southampton Row, The Whitechapel Conspiracy, Half Moon Street, Bedford Square, and Brunswick Gardens. She also writes the popular novels featuring Victorian private investigator William Monk—among them, Death of a Stranger, Funeral in Blue, and Slaves of Obsession—as well as a new series set during World War One that began with No Graves As Yet. Her short story “Heroes” won an Edgar Award. Anne Perry lives in Scotland. Visit her Web site at www.anneperry.net.
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Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty s Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt s orders are to protect at all costs the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. This distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha s lover, insists that she is as innocent as Pitt himself is. Pitt s journey to uncover the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to the insidious London slum called Seven Dials, to a packed London courtroom where shocking secrets will at last be revealed.
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Condition: Fair. Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion, where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful, notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt's orders are to protect--at all costs--the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. The distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha's lover, insists that she is as innocent as Pitt himself. Pitt's journey to uncover the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to the insidious London slum called Seven Dials--and ultimately to a packed London courtroom in which shocking secrets will at last be revealed. Seller Inventory # CIN0345440080A
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