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The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him for in the dead man s pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general s study. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web. Pitt s clever wife, Charlotte,...

A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY
"One of the best books to brighten the joyous season."
-USA Today
"This brief work has an almost Jamesian subtlety. . . . A] powerful message of responsibility and redemption."
-The Wall Street Journal
In the Berkshire countryside, family and guests have gathered for a delicious weekend fete surrounded by roaring fires and candlelight. It's scarcely the setting for misfortune, and no one-not even that clever...

In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes four years earlier by a killer dubbed Jack the Ripper remain a terrifying enigma. And in a packed Old Bailey courtroom, Superintendent Thomas Pitt's testimony causes distinguished soldier John Adinett to be sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of a friend. Instead of being praised for his key testimony, Pitt is removed from his station command and transferred to Whitechapel, one of the East End's most dangerous slums. There he must work undercover investigating alleged anarchist plots. Among his few allies are his clever wife,...

In a sensational breach-of-promise suit, two wealthy social climbers are suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah s alleged fiance, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will not, "cannot, " marry her. Utterly baffled by his client s refusal, Melville s counsel, Sir Oliver Rathbone, turns to his old comrades in crime William Monk and nurse Hester Latterly. But even as they scout London for clues, the case suddenly and tragically ends, in an outcome that no one except a ruthless murderer could have foreseen."