The Carter Street
Hangman
A Charlotte and Thomas
Pitt Novel
ANNE PERRY
Review by Author Roy
Murry
A serial killer is
garotting young women on Carter street in 1881. When a maid in Charlotte's
house dies the same way, Inspector Thomas Pitt comes into her life.
The vicar (pastor) of
the local church, whom Charlotte dislikes, comes to the house to preach about
sin. The ones sinning, he intimates the women and, of course, the killer.
Man's sin is different
from women in those days. Proper women should not be out after dark -very
improper in those days.
These and other sins
were discussions of the families, vicar, and wife, but mostly between Charlotte
and Pitt. Thomas Pitt interviews everyone on Carter Street, looking for the man
garotting the women.
The person is difficult
to find by the police, five killings in all until Charlotte and Pitt have a
conversation that leads to a shocking ending. The sin hits home at the place
one would not believe.
It was a good read.
However, the hangman writer left me hanging.
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