Bluegate fields

Description:

Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London’s most dangerous slums. What’s more, the unfortunate boy had been violated before he was murdered. So vile a case is hardly a topic for drawing-room conversation. But when the Waybournes, the boy’s family, refuse to answer the police’s questions, Inspector Pitt begins to wonder what secrets they are trying to hide. Pitt’s wife and helpmeet, Charlotte, is determined to find out–even if it means tearing down the façades of an oh-so-proper family.

subjects: Women detectives,  Police,  Police spouses,  Charlotte Pitt (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Thomas Pitt (Fictitious character),  Large type books,  England, fiction,  London (england), fiction,  Pitt, charlotte (fictitious character), fiction,  Pitt, thomas (fictitious character), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Social life and customs,  Fiction, historical

People: Charlotte Pitt,  Thomas Pitt

Places: England,  London (England),  London

Times: 19th century