num_pages: 288
description: While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their own household was strangled to death. Quiet, young Inspector Pitt found no one above suspicion--and his investigation at the staid Ellison home caused many a composed façade to crumble into far-from-elegant panic.But it was not panic beating in the heart of pretty Charlotte Ellison. And something more than brutal murder was on Inspector Pitt's mind. Yet, such a romance between a society girl and so unsuitable a suitor was impossible in the midst of a murder...
language: English
title: The Cater Street Hangman
titlecomplete: The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
characters: Sarah Corde, Thomas Pitt, Emily Ellison, Lord George Ashworth, Caroline Ellison, Vicar Prebble, Charlotte Ellison, Edward Ellison, Grandmama, Dominic Corde, Martha Prebble, Maddock
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, Victorian, Romance, Mystery, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 20213
places: London, England, Cater Street, United Kingdom
series: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt
publisher: Fawcett