Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim--or did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wife's large fortune?
Highgate Rise
β Scribed by Perry, Anne
- Book ID
- 108279621
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 464 KB
- Series
- Thomas and Charlotte Pitt 11
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307767714
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β¦ Synopsis
Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victimor did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wifes large fortune? Baffled by the scarcity of clues in this terrible crime, Inspector Thomas Pitt turns to the people who had been closest to the coupleClemencys stuffy but distinguished relatives. Meanwhile, Pitts wellborn wife, Charlotte, retraces the dangerous path that Clemency walked in the last months of her life, finding herself enmeshed in a sinister web that stretches from the lowest slums to the loftiest centers of power.
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Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim--or did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wife's large fortune?
Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim--or did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wife's large fortune?
Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim--or did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wife's large fortune?
En el Londres victoriano, aquel rutilante mundo de elegancia para unos pocos, hipocresΓa de esos mismos pocos y formal cortesΓa hasta para ir al retrete, se cometΓan crΓmenes como en cualquier otra gran ciudadβ¦ Clemency Shaw, la esposa de un prominente doctor, ha muerto en un incendio. Pero el inspe