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After delivering testimony at the Old Bailey court, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is removed from his command and assigned to investigate alleged anarchist plots in Whitechapel, one of London’s most dangerous slums. With his perceptive wife Charlotte and the resourceful maid Gracie by his side, Pitt navigates the underworld’s secrets while the unresolved murders of Whitechapel prostitutes from 1888 remain a looming specter. The novel follows his undercover work and the moral complexities of policing a precarious East End community.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Anne Perry
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