Novel, Mystery, Historical Fiction

Pitt, Charlotte (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Women detectives--England--London--Fiction; Police--England--London--Fiction.

He might be elegant, but there's no mistaking it--the gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is definitely dead. Before Inspector Thomas Pitt can even speculate on why anyone should want to kill the eminent M.P., Sir Lockwood, a colleague of his, meets the same fate at the same spot. The public is outraged, and clever Charlotte Pitt, Thomas's well-born wife, helps her hard-pressed husband by scouting society's drawing rooms for clues to these appalling crimes. Meanwhile, another victim is being stalked. . . . [from publisher's web site] The book deals in part with the starving to death of a Mormon convert by her abusive, chauvinist husband, who thinks he has the right to refuse a mere woman's decision about religion.

PR 6066 .E693 B48 1990b