Resurrection Row

Zusatztext Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood. San Francisco Chronicle Anne Perry has made the Victorian era her own literary preserve. . . . Perry's work is consistently top-notch. San Diego Union Perry is my choice for today's best mystery writer of Victoriana. St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Anne Perry puts Thomas and Charlotte Pitt on the case! we are in exemplary Victorian company. New York Times Informationen zum Autor Anne Perry Klappentext It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab-and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond? A doctor insists that Lord Augustus's death was natural. But as far as the police are concerned, there's certainly nothing natural about any of this gristly aftermath. Inspector Pitt is determined to unearth the truth-even if the digging puts his own life at perilous risk. Zusammenfassung It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom caband not just any corpse! but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife! Charlotte! this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond? A doctor insists that Lord Augustus's death was natural. But as far as the police are concerned! there's certainly nothing natural about any of this gristly aftermath. Inspector Pitt is determined to unearth the trutheven if the digging puts his own life at perilous risk.

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Anne Perry

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It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab-and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond?

A doctor insists that Lord Augustus's death was natural. But as far as the police are concerned, there's certainly nothing natural about any of this gristly aftermath. Inspector Pitt is determined to unearth the truth-even if the digging puts his own life at perilous risk.

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It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab–and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond?

A doctor insists that Lord Augustus’s death was natural. But as far as the police are concerned, there’s certainly nothing natural about any of this gristly aftermath. Inspector Pitt is determined to unearth the truth–even if the digging puts his own life at perilous risk.