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Paragon Walk
Written by Anne Perry
Narrated by Davina Porter
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When a young woman from the upper class neighborhood of Paragon Walk is raped and murdered, Inspector Pitt is sent in on the case. Unable to believe that a killer could live among them, residents refuse to cooperate with the investigation. He soon finds that the polite society of Paragon Walk is nothing more than a mask for something much more sinister.
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Anne Perry
With twenty million books in print, ANNE PERRY's was selected by The Times as one of the twentieth century's '100 Masters of Crime', for more information about Anne and her books, visit: www.anneperry.co.uk
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51885 Who would want to kill 17 year old innocent Fanny Nash of Paragon Walk. It is for Inspector Pitt to investigate. As his sister my marriage Emily lives on the same Walk, will she and his wife Charlotte be a help in this case. Is Fanny's death the start of a killing spree.
An enjoyable and well-written mystery - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paragon Walk by Anne Perry is the third book in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt historical mystery series. I enjoyed the first two books better than this one although it is still an entertaining read.More social commentary and less mystery here but still well written and with a numerous cast of characters. Like Book 2, Charlotte's sister Emily is showcased and the murders take place in her neighborhood.The ending is exceptionally abrupt and I found it unsatisfying as there was no wrap up. Once more, the last 20% of my Kindle version was comprised of a preview of the next book in the series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Having jumped into this series in the middle of the books, I decided to go back and read some of the earlier ones and it made me realize what I liked about the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt in the first place. This is the third book in the series and Charlotte and Thomas are still newly married with a baby daughter. A young woman from a ealthy area in London is found raped and murdered on the very stret tht Charlotte's sister, Emily, lives. Pitt, of course, has to investigate and in doing so we re introduced to wonderful Aunt Vespasia, who is wonderfully arch - much more so than she is in the later volumes. And Charlotte and Emily are a great duo as they snoop around trying to find out who the real culprit is. Anne Perry even allows Charlotte to be silly - something that definitely does not happen in the later books.Reading these early efforts makes me wish that Pitt was still a policeman and that Charlotte was once again his trusty partner in detective work. It would make thte later books a lot more fun.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I am on a collision course and I cannot stop. I have read all the Monk and Christmas series by Anne Perry, and have started on the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. The Monk series remains my favorite collection. The Pitt series lacks the depth and character of the Monk series, even though both series feature the different classes of people. Perry continues in the Pitt series to show the hate and vengeance of females. Perry elegantly describes the fashion of the upper crust, but emotion hides in this elegance.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Charlotte and Thomas Pitt are back investigating murder. This time a young woman has been raped and murdered in Paragon Walk, a fashionable London street that happens to be home to Charlotte's sister Emily. Charlotte and Emily decide to investigate. As Charlotte has married down and become a policeman's wife, Emily will have to dress Charlotte back up as the fashionable lady she once was. This book seemed to be more social interaction and less crime-solving. Charlotte and Emily spend most of their time attending social functions and gossiping. It seems that Perry really wanted to spend more time commenting on social life and customs than to write a mystery. Undoubtedly the bitchy social interaction is amusing. It's a backstabbing, every woman for herself arena, where Victorian manners and their transgressions are on full display. Still, I really wanted more mystery. I hope Perry returns to more mystery in the next volume of the series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked this book even though it is more of a slice of life on an upper-crust Victorian street than a mystery. I like the characters and the relationship between sisters Emily who married up and Charlotte who married down. Perry keeps her "Why I hate Victorians" essays to a minimum { for Anne Perry.) But Charlotte spending the funeral of a murdered 17 year old rape victim fuming about the absurdity of Victorian mourning customs is totally cold-hearted.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Substance: The only legitimate clue is discounted for half the book, then set aside again until the end. The motive for the killer is non-existent until the last page. But the characters stew over their suspicions interminably, with much repetition and no progress, creating a farrago of nonsense. No one actually detects anything. Mrs. Pitt frequently pronounces her anachronistic opinions in opposition to the statements of the other characters, clearly meant to show that the author is enlightened (because there is no motivation or discussion of the values).Style: I hope this is an isolated example of poor work: Anne Perry is a tiresome writer. The plot limps, the characters are mouthpieces, the milieu is window-dressing. The narrative constantly alludes to prior books without explanation. Poor continuity. A tabloid-romance, not a mystery.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the third of Perry's outings with Inspector Pitt and his inestimable wife Charlotte and I'm sad to say that I am already having my doubts over the series longevity on my bookshelf. It is essentially the same story as the last two books except the characters have different names and live in different streets. A person is brutally murdered in an upper-class London neighbourhood. Inspector Pitt arrives and questions everyone who lives in the locality. Then his wife goes and takes tea with them all and asks them some more questions. It transpires that all the people in the neighbourhood has a dirty secret. Then at least one more person is attacked or murdered. There is more questioning and taking of tea and then the murderer is revealed. The next one really needs a change of scene and for something different to happen to hold my attention. I hope it does as I like Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, they are great characters.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you like Victorian cozies and lovable characters, this book is for you.With the third in the Pitt series, the author, Anne Perry hits her stride. The story begins with a body in the morgue. The victim is slight, delicately featured, beautifully dressed, her arms bruised, her face barely touched by life. Fanny Nash is seventeen when she is stabbed and raped in Paragon Walk, a London neighborhood of impeccable pedigree, and the neighborhood, as luck would have it, of Charlotte’s sister, Emily, and her husband, Lord Ashworth.Pitt is called in to to investigate. In so doing, he scrapes the surface of society—the inhabitants, their servants, their families—revealing their stories, their guilt, their secrets, their relationships with one another, their pompous ill regard for most everyone else. Ms Perry lays bare the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, the theme at the heart of this intricately plotted, beautifully and accurately detailed novel. You won’t want it to end, but end it does, just after the mystery is solved.Meet the ageless beauty, Lady Vespasia Cumming-GouldA recurring character in the Pitt series, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, makes her first appearance in this novel. A favorite character of many readers, this one included, she happens to be staying with Emily and George in their Paragon Walk townhouse. Beautifully attired, outspoken, and witty, she serves, perhaps as the author’s point of view, but certainly as a delightful deus ex machina in this, as well as in subsequent novels in the series. One of her more envious characteristics is that she doesn’t age. She’s about seventy or eighty in Paragon Walk, and she approaches seventy in Treason in Lisson Grove which takes place, almost fifteen years later. You go, girl, Cumming-Gould!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book 3 of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt gaslight mysteries. Another fun romp through Victorian society in search of a killer.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charlotte's sister Emily invites her back into society to find out who is the murderer in her neighborhood. Many mysteries are uncovered along with evil intentions.