Midnight at Marble Arch

By Anne Perry - undifferentiated

Subjects: Thomas Pitt (Fictitious character), Fiction, History, Charlotte Pitt (Fictitious character)

Description: It is 1896, and Thomas Pitt is in charge of Special Branch. During a lavish party at the Spanish Embassy, a policeman interrupts Pitt's conversation with investor Rawdon Quixwood to break the terrible news that Quixwood's wife Catherine has been viciously assaulted and murdered at their home. At the same party, Pitt's wife Charlotte sees Angeles Castelbranco, an ambassador's daughter, flinch in fear at the teasing of some young men. A few days later, Angeles flees from the same group and, in her terror, falls from a window - what could have caused her to take that fatal step? Pitt and his friend Victor Narraway vow to uncover the unspoken truth behind the deaths of the two women. But as they investigate, danger is only ever one step away ...