The Cater Street hangman

247 pages

English language

Published June 27, 1979 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-312-12385-7
OCLC Number:: 4641956

(5 reviews)

Really super crime detective book, first in the series about Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. It's set in the late 1800's. Charlotte is still at home with her upper middle class family. Pitt is a policeman and meets Charlotte during the investigation into strangling deaths of young women in her neighborhood, including her elder sister Sarah. It's partly a love story - Charlotte forced by her own intelligence and honesty to see Pitt not as an irritating, presumptuous lower-class person but as a man, himself intelligent, gentle and fiercely dedicated to finding the truth in the murder investigations. Charlotte with her entree into and knowledge of society and Pitt with his street smarts solve the murders together.

7 editions

Marsha Woerner reviewed The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels) by Anne Perry (Thomas Pitt (1))

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4 stars

It was fun :-)
I'm not sure how good the representation of high society life in (that time era; not indicated what the time era is…), but tHe conclusion is surprising! I must have read/listened to this book previously, because aspects were recognized, but it must either been to recently, because I really didn't remember any of the details or even some of the main points! Clearly, it had been worth saving simply listening to it again was not unenjoyable :-)