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Author
Series
Elena Standish volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe-unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler's clutches-in this action-packed mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. It is summer 1934, and Hitler is teetering on the edge of supreme power. Any small step forward could vault him toward European domination. When Britain's MI6 gets word that a pair of German scientists have made a breakthrough in germ warfare, they send Elena Standish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"December, 1904. Jemima Pitt, now twenty-two, agrees to act as a "suitable companion" to her friend Delphinia, who is traveling to New York to be married to Brent Albright, toast of New York high society. Jemima is excited about the prospect of a Christmas adventure in a strange big city, but little does she expect to be enlisted on a top secret mission by Brent's brother Harley, to track down Delphinia's estranged mother. After some detective work...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"As Charlotte Pitt's grandmother Mariah Ellison finds herself investigating a long-unsolved slaying, it becomes clear that grappling with intrigue and foul play runs in the family. A festive Christmas package left on Mariah's doorstep contains an ominous present, sparking memories of a twenty-year-old murder that shattered her friendship with the victim's widow. Though the gift is a bitter reminder of that tragic time, in the spirit of the season...
Author
Series
Elena Standish volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"In the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre-World War II Europe, an intrepid young photographer carries her imperiled lover's final, urgent message into the heart of Berlin as Hitler ascends to power. On vacation from London on the beautiful Italian coast, twenty-eight-year-old Elena Standish and her older sister Margot have finally been able to forget some of the lasting trauma of the Great War. Touring with her camera in hand, Elena has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
2009 Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bodies of two newborn babies have been found in a park in the fashionable London neighborhood of Callander Square. While Inspector Thomas Pitt is fighting to get the squire's aristocratic residents to speak with him, his pretty, well-born wife Charlotte decides to do some detective work of her own. Soon she is unearthing secrets in every house on the square while Thomas tries to discover what would drive a person to murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After leaving her position with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to get married, Gracie thought her days as a maid were behind her. But when her good friend’s daughter, Millie, turns up on her doorstep just before the holidays, frantic because things are going missing from the kitchen in the household she serves, Gracie knows she has to find out what is happening. Millie, whose mother died years before, can’t risk being accused of theft and getting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
This new novel features Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. Itś Christmas in the Berkshire countryside and well-born guests have gathered at Applecross for a delicious weekend of innocent intrigue and passionate romance are warmed by roaring fires and candlelight, holly and mistletoe, good wine and gorgeously wrapped gifts. But soon one young woman lies dead, a suicide, and another is ostracized, held partly responsible for the shocking turn of events....
9) Seven dials
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
(book club ed)
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch investigates the murder of a diplomat whose body turns up at a mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson.
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine Pub
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A century ago, Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution rocked the civilized world, and the outraged Anglican church went on the warpath against it. In a mansion in London's affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle is intense, as that most respected clergyman, the Reverend Ramsay Parmenter, is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood - a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity,...
11) Paragon Walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As More...the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it becomes appallingly clear that something ugly lurks behind the handsome fa?ades of Paragon Walk?something that may lead to more scandal, and more murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating evidence of a violent struggle at the home of Ministry of Defense member Dudley Kynaston, Pitt and the Special Branch discover the brutally murdered body of a young woman before realizing that Kynaston is not who he appears to be.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte Pitt's mother, Caroline, has traveled with husband Joshua Fielding and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula first touched English soil in the sensational novel. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of the book, but the project is a disaster. Then a black-cloaked stranger emerges from a snowstorm who turns out to be a theatrical genius. But at the same time, a brooding evil makes itself...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's a mole in the Special Branch who's trading British secrets and it's up to Thomas Pitt to investigate. While he's dismayed at having to investigate his own men, he's even more appalled when he discovers he can't trust any of them. Meanwhile, Pitt's boss learns a retired spy could have unearthed secrets that could lead to war. Pitt helps him resolve that problem.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Commander Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called to the scene of a brutal explosion in the heart of London. The bomb was set off during an important--and secret--police raid, killing several officers, and the government suspects anarchists are at work. But what Pitt discovers is far more disturbing: the explosion was not a terrorist attack meant to sow chaos, but a calculated means to commit a targeted murder. And the evidence trail leads...
16) Belgrave Square
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When William Weems, obscure moneylender, is murdered Ispector Pitt is asked to investigate and discovers Weems was a vicious blackmailer who had a list of some of London's most distinguished gentlemen in his office.
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