Bedford Square - Hardcover

Perry, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345432983 ISBN 13: 9780345432988

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1999

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330pages. 21x14x3cm. Relié.

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Superintendent Thomas Pitt of Bow Street Police Station once again teams up with his clever wife, Charlotte, to investigate when the corpse of a murdered man turns up on the doorstep of General Brandon Ballantyne, who denies all knowledge of the crime or the victim, in a mystery set in Victorian London. 50,000 first printing.

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ove with Anne Perry's matchless Victorian mysteries are no strangers to the scandals and secret corruption that sometimes lay concealed behind the elegant facades of the haughty mansions in fin de siècle London. For most Londoners, however, these great houses were inscrutable bastions of privilege and power.

All the more shocking then was the freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Ballantyne--an affront to every respectable sensibility.

The general denies all knowledge of the bloody-knuckled, shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home. But Superintendent Thomas Pitt of Bow Street Police Station cannot believe him. For in the dead man's pocket he finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general's study. He must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web of terror. Pitt's clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0345432983
• ISBN 13: 9780345432988
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330