Pentecost Alley - Hardcover

Perry, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0449906353 ISBN 13: 9780449906354

Verlag: Ballantine Books Inc., 1996

Inhaltsangabe

After sending a man to the gallows for the murder of a Whitechapel prostitute two years after the ghastly crimes of Jack the Ripper, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is suddenly confronted with another chillingly similar killing that raises speculation that the wrong man had been convicted--or that the Ripper has returned. 75,000 first printing.

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urder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But under the victim's body the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name Finlay Fitzjames--a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case.

Finlay's father--immensely wealthy, powerful, and dangerous--refuses to consider the possibility that his son has been in Ada McKinley's bed. The implication is clear: Pitt is to arrest someone other than Finlay Fitzjames for Ada's demise.

But Thomas Pitt is not a man to be intimidated, and with the help of his quick-witted wife, Charlotte, and her well-connected friends, he stubbornly pursues his investigation--one that twists and turns like London's own ancient streets....

Anne Perry has devised the most intricate mystery of her prolific career in PENTECOST ALLEY, whose brilliant resolution will astonish and satisfy even the mos

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0449906353
• ISBN 13: 9780449906354
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 405
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