He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew. |a Women detectives |z England |v Fiction. |a Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character) |v Fiction. |a Pitt, Charlotte (Fictitious character) |v Fiction. Martin's Press, Ballantine Books |c 2009, 1981. For Pitt and Charlotte, what begins as a mysterious case of musical corpses, becomes a deadly pursuit through the London underworld of pornographic photographers, brothels, and sweatshops. As Pitt follows leads into the slums and rookeries, Charlotte, too, is drawn into the politics and horrors of greed and exploitation. A new mother, Charlotte Pitt only takes a cursory interest in the grave robbing case until she hears Thomas mention the name of her late sister's husband, Dominic Corde, as a possible suspect. The case grows increasingly bizarre as other disinterred bodies appear.

But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the man's corpse is found sitting in the family pew the Sunday following his second interment, Pitt begins to wonder if perhaps there's some message in it. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn't Inspector Thomas Pitt's usual fare. Lord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. 'For readers longing to be in 1890s London, Perry's tales are just the ticket' ( Chicago Tribune).

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