Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0345440072 . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in tan boards w brown cloth spine, Very Good unmarked in Very Good jacket.; Charlotte and Thomas Pitt; 8.40 X 5.60 X 1.20 inches; 352 pp pages .

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Millions of readers who love New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry and her novels cherish the magical passport she provides into the age of Victoria at its brilliant zenith. It was an unforgettable time when rich and powerful Englishmen contrived to make themselves even richer and more powerful. When Englishwomen were the glittering ornaments of an opulent society, rolling over cobblestones in their costly carriages, entertaining the chosen few in their elegant drawing rooms. Thoughts of the poor, rotting in London slums and in British dominions east and west of Suez, seldom troubled this prideful aristocracy. But a shocking murder was soon to remind them of their ever-present vulnerability.In the first gray of a mid-September morning, Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt's orders, emanating from Prime Minister Gladstone himself, are to protect--at all costs--the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. This distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha's lover, insists that she is as innocent as he is himself. Could it be true?In the dead man's less-than-stellar reputation, Pitt finds hope. But in ancient Alexandria, where the victim was once an army officer, hope grows dim. For there, Pitt receives intimations of deadly entanglements stretching from Egyptian cotton fields to Manchester cotton mills, from the noxious London slum known as Seven Dials to the madhouse called Bedlam.Meanwhile, in a packed courtroom at the Old Bailey, time is ticking away for Ayesha and Saville. With Pitt and his clients racing against the hangman, the trial reaches its pulse-pumping climax.

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Bookseller: E Ridge fine Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7605
Title: Seven Dials ; Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
Author: Perry, Anne
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0345440072
ISBN 13: 9780345440075
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2003
Keywords: Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General;

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