Belgrave Square

✍ Scribed by Perry, Anne

• Book ID: 109206776
• Publisher: Editions 10/18
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 536 KB
• Series: Thomas and Charlotte Pitt 21
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307767738

✦ Synopsis

When an obscure moneylender named William Weems is murdered in the humble Clerkenwell district, there are no mourners—and there is more than a little discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he so mercilessly devoured. Yet when Inspector Pitt finds in the murdered man’s office a list containing the names of some of London’s most distinguished gentlemen, he begins to realize the magnitude of his duty. William Weems, it transpires, was no common usurer but a vicious blackmailer. Fortunately, Pitt’s clever, well-born wife, Charlotte, has entrée to London’s best society. Her insights prove to be invaluable to Pitt’s investigation as she observes, at glittering balls and over gossipy tea tables, a world of passion, power, and greed that the police are seldom permitted to see.