Highgate Rise

副标题: Rise

ISBN: 9780449219591

出版社: Fawcett

出版年: 1992-04-22

页数: 352

定价: USD 7.50

装帧: Mass Market Paperback

内容简介

"Perry gets the Victorian mood just right...Settle in with this one on a rainy day."

BOOKLIST

Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire. But whether the blaze was set by an arsonist aiming for the doctor, or set by the doctor himself, Inspector Thomas Pitt isn't certain. With the scarcity of clues, Pitt turns to Clemency's stuffy, but distinguished, relatives. Meanwhile, Pitt's wellborn wife, Charlotte, retraces the dangerous path that Clemency walked the last months of her life, and finds herself enmeshed in a sinister web that stretches from the lowest slums to the loftiest centers of power....