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Resurrection Row  (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, Bk 4)
Resurrection Row - Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, Bk 4
Author: Anne Perry
What an odd sight! The dead body of a peer of the realm sitting upright in an empty hansom cab. He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew. There was something terrible amiss. Despite doctor's claims of death by natural causes, Pitt insisted on serious digging to unearth the truth--even if it killed him.
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ISBN-13: 9780449210673
ISBN-10: 0449210677
Publication Date: 5/12/1986
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 75 ratings
Publisher: Fawcett
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed Resurrection Row (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, Bk 4) on + 22 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Anne Perry always adds vivid descriptions of the social mores of the times in her mysteries. This book kept me guessing the whole time.
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Helpful Score: 1
This mystery set in 1840's London, is another highly readable inspector Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife, Charlotte myetery. It is one of Perry's scathing portraits of Victorian society balanced with a mystery revolving human desires, shameful secrets and the Victorian hyprocrisy that allowed for secret double lives, several of which could only be maintained by blackmail. It is bad enough that the recently deceased Lord Fitzroy-Hammond has been removed from his grave, but when it happens a second time and then other buried corpses start popping up, the normally unflappable Pitt is puzzled indeed. Is the perpetrator trying to hide a murder or call attention to one? The answer lies in a convoluted but perfectly logical merging of art, blackmail, politics, pornography, and prostitution. Doggedly following the evidence, inspector Pitt solves the murders, in the process of which we learn both the dark and compassionate side of Victorian society.
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I was disappointed in this book. I felt like I was reading a textbook about grave desecration, resurrection-ism, and the bodies involved. The mystery seemed to be secondary. Both parts were tied together close to the end, but it seemed contrived to make it so. I prefer the mystery to be prominent thread. If I need detail, do not write me a textbook. A quick overview will do for me. I like the characters. However, I don't think Charlotte and Thomas have found a good balance in their personal lives or in Charlotte's participation in solving the mystery.


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