Question: Information: - Anne Perry (born 28 October 1938 as Juliet Marion Hulme) is an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. At the age of fifteen she was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend's mother, in 1954. She changed her name after serving her five-year sentence. - A protagonist is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama. - Thomas Pitt is the protagonist in a series of detective novels by Anne Perry . Pitt is from a working - class background in Victorian London . His father was a gamekeeper on a landed estate and Pitt was educated alongside the son of the house . He was prompted to enter the police force after his father was wrongly accused of poaching game and transported to Australia . At the beginning of the series , Pitt is a police inspector , but was promoted to superintendent . Later he is removed from his job as a result of investigating the '' wrong people '' , i.e. those with sufficient influence and power , and joins the Special Branch , in which he becomes an inspector . Later he is promoted to commander as Head of Special Branch . His wife , Charlotte ( nee Ellison ) , is from an upper - class family . Her sister Emily 's first husband was a viscount and her second husband is a rising politician . Charlotte frequently uses Emily 's connections to the landed gentry and aristocracy to assist Pitt in his investigations . Charlotte relies on her maid , Gracie , to take care for her children , Jemima and Daniel , when she is investigating a mystery . Charlotte 's well - intentioned interference in her husband 's investigations gives Pitt access to information which enables him to solve the case . Vespasia Cumming - Gould , the elderly aunt of Emily 's first husband , becomes a friend to both Emily and Charlotte and eases their way into society . The first novel , The Cater Street Hangman , was adapted for TV in 1998 ; it starred Eoin McCarthy and Keeley Hawes and featured Hannah Spearritt in her acting debut . - Inspector William Monk is a fictional character created by the writer Anne Perry and hero of a series of books. - Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detectiveeither professional or amateurinvestigates a crime, often murder. What is the relationship between 'thomas pitt ' and 'fictional character'?
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