About this work of fiction
Crescent Cardington by Crescent, Cardington is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
When the womanizing aristocrat George March is found dead over his morning coffee, the immediate concern of his shocked Cardington Crescent household is quieting the scandal as discreetly—and quickly—as possible. Unfortunately for March’s wife, Emily, that means accusing her of the murder. But the family does not take into account Emily’s beloved sister, who is none other than the indomitable Charlotte Pitt. Together, Charlotte and her husband, police inspector Thomas Pitt, take on the seemingly irreproachable, upper-crust March clan and uncover an insidious web of corruption and depravity that leads them from the elegant Crescent town house to the hideous London slums, and from genteel society to murder—again. From Publishers Weekly Perry's Victorian sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his redoubtable wife Charlotte returnafter Death in the Devil's Acre and Bluegate Fieldsto poke holes in the stiff fabric of London's high society. While Thomas works on a case involving a murdered woman whose body has been dismembered and left in packages around the city, Charlotte's brother-in-law George is poisoned at the home of his cousin's family on Cardington Crescent. George had been sufferin
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- Author
- Crescent, Cardington
- Publisher
- Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781453219096
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (1,246 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14