Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Series (Books 1 – 26) – Anne Perry Free Audiobook

Written by Anne Perry
Format: MP3

Anne Perry Pitt – 01 – The Cater Street Hangman

“An ingenious mystery and an excellent example of manners and caste systems of the Victorian era.”
THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES
While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was strangled to death. The quiet and young Inspector Pitt investigates the scene and finds no one above suspicion. As his intense questioning causes many a composed facade to crumble, Pitt finds himself couriously drawn to pretty Charlotte Ellison. Yet, a romance between a society girl and so unsuitable a suitor was impossible in the midst of a murder….

Anne Perry Pitt – 02 – Callander Square

“Murder fans who prefer their crimes with a touch of class should heat some scones and nestle back for the afternoon.”
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
Murders just didn’t take place in fashionable Callander Square, so Inspector Pitt’s well-bred wife Charlotte couldn’t resist finding out why one had. Suddenly there she was, rattling the closets of the very rich, listening to backstair gossip, and unearthing truths that could push even the most proper aristocrat to murder….

Anne Perry Pitt – 03 – Paragon Walk

“Perry has the great gift of making it all seem immediate and very much alive.”
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of sleuths, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, peer beneath the elegant masks of the well-born suspects and reveal that something ugly lurks behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk-something that could lead to more scandal, and more murder….

Anne Perry Pitt – 04 – Resurrection Row

It was the most incredible thing: a corpse driving an empty hansom cab through the foggy streets of a London evening. And it wasn’t just any corpse but the body of a peer of the realm. This was sheer lunacy. Who on earth would want to unearth a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond? The doctor insisted that his death had been natural. But there was nothing natural about this as far as the police were concerned. Inspector Pitt was determined to reveal the truth, but even he was unprepared for the horrors of greed and exploitation that lay in store.

Anne Perry Pitt – 05 – Rutland Place

‘A curious and most disturbing thing has happened…’ When Charlotte Pitt learned of her mother’s distress at losing a locket with a compromising picture, she could not know that it was the beginning of a chain of bizarre events that would end in sudden death. For hidden behind the sumptuous elegance of Rutland Place were terrible secrets. Secrets so horrifying that only murder could conceal them. But the dangerous persistence of Charlotte and the quiet patience of Inspector Thomas Pitt made it possible to unwind this most macabre and chilling mystery…

Anne Perry Pitt – 06 – Bluegate Fields

A crime novel set in Victorian London in which the family of a young murdered aristocrat, whose corpse was found in a London sewer, refuse to answer the police questions. However, Inspector Pitt and his wife determine to unravel the mystery behind the family facade. Follows BETHLEHEM ROAD.

Anne Perry Pitt – 07 – Death In Devils’s Square

Violent crime was hardly rare in the slums of London in 1887. But sexual mutilations was–and Inspector Pitt was shocked to find four men so murdered. With his wife Charlotte, he pursued clues from the depths of the slums to the heights of high society.

Anne Perry Pitt – 08 – Cardigan Crescent

“A detailed period puzzler suffused with atmosphere, emotion, and suspense!”
BOOKLIST
When George March, a womanizing aristocrat, is found dead over his morning coffee, his wife Emily is accused of murder. But Emily’s sister is none other than the indomitable Charlotte Pitt. Together, she and her husband, Inspector Thomas Pitt, take on the seemingly irreproachable March clan-and uncover an insidious web of corruption and depravity that leads them from the elegant Crescent town house to the hideous London slumbs, from genteel society to murder-again.

Anne Perry Pitt – 09 – Silence In Hanover Close

Inspector Pitt’s wife Charlotte travels in disguise to an exclusive neighborhood to investigate the three-year-old murder of a high official in the Foreign Office, in a period mystery set in Victorian London.

Anne Perry Pitt – 10 – Bethlehem Road

Inspector Thomas Pitt investigates the brutal murder of Sir Lockwood Hamilton–a kind family man and well-liked member of Parliament–calling on his wife, Charlotte, to help him scour society drawing rooms for clues.

Anne Perry Pitt – 11 – Highgate Rise

The Victorian mystery series starring Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Pitt reaches new heights. When Dr. Stephen Shaw’s fancy Highgate Rise home is burned to the ground with his wife inside, the Inspector and his wife must solve a baffling mystery. “Rounded out by a host of lively characters, this is a memorable tale.”–Publishers Weekly.

Anne Perry Pitt – 12 – Belgrave Square

The 12th mystery in the beloved Inspector and Charlotte Pitt Victorian mystery series, now a hardcover success. When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London’s distinguished gentlemen in Weems’ office.

Anne Perry Pitt – 13 – Farriers Lane

The mass-market debut of the most recent Victorian novel featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, published to coincide with the brand-new hardcover, The Hyde Park Headsman. When Justice Stafford dies of opium poisoning, his demise resurrects one of England’s most sensational cases.

Anne Perry Pitt – 14 – Hyde Park Headsman

From the author of Traitor’s Gate comes the latest Victorian mystery starring Police Supervisor Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte. When people start losing their heads in London, newly-promoted Thomas Pitt could lose his job! “Captivating.”–The Indianapolis Star.

Anne Perry Pitt – 15 – Traitor’s Gate

Someone in the Colonial Office is passing information to Germany about England’s African strategy. Police superintendent Thomas Pitt is charged with investigating this treason, but his mind is on the sudden, tragic death of his childhood mentor, Sir Arthur Desmond.

Anne Perry Pitt – 16 – Pentecost Alley [Abridged]

The ritual murder of a prostitute causes no stir in London, but under the victim’s body the police find a Hellfire Club badge that quickly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case–and into a second murder that follows the same M.O. From the author of Cain His Brother.

Anne Perry Pitt – 17 – Ashworth Hall [Abridged]

Thomas and Charlotte Pitt return in the latest brilliantly rendered novel of manners, mores, and murder in Victorian England. A group of Irish political figures, Protestants and Catholics, gathers at Ashworth Hall in hopes of finally resolving the volatile issue of home rule for Ireland. When a mysterious murder shatters the decorum of the weekend, Scotland Yard’s Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his clever wife Charlotte arrive to root out the truth.

Anne Perry Pitt – 18 – Brunswick Gardens [Abridged]

A century ago, Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theory of evolution rocked the civilized world, and the outraged Anglican church went on the warpath against it. In a mansion in London’s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle is intense, as that most respected clergyman, the Reverend Ramsay Parmenter, is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood – a “new woman” whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the Parmenter’s staircase to her death, Thomas Pitt, commander of the Bow Street police station, is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son?

Anne Perry Pitt – 19 – Bedford Square

When a man is found murdered on the doorstep of a respectable house in Bedford Square, Victorian England’s finest and most controversial policeman, Thomas Pitt, is immediately called to the scene.

Anne Perry Pitt – 20 – Halfmoon Street

For superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. He lies in a battered punt drifting through the morning mist, his arms and legs chained to the boat’s sides. He is clad in a torn green gown and flowers bestrew his battered body.

Pitt’s determined search for answers to the victim’s identity leads him deep into London’s bohemia to the theatre where beautiful Cecily Antrim is outraging society with her bold portrayal of a modern woman–and into studios where masters of light and shadow are experimenting with the fascinating new art of photography. But only Pitt’s most relentless pursuit enables him to identify the wildfire passions raging through this tragedy of good and evil, to hunt down the guilty and protect the innocent.

Anne Perry Pitt – 21 – Whitechapel Conspiracy

In the wake of a successful but unlikely sentencing of a distinguished soldier and murder suspect, Bow Street Station Supertendent Thomas Pitt is removed from office and forced to work undercover in the dangerous East End Special Branch.

Anne Perry Pitt – 22 – Southampton Row

Despite Thomas Pitt’s success in the Whitechapel case, the secretive Inner Circle prevent his returning to Bow Street police as Superintendent. Pitt’s next task for Special Branch is to investigate Charles Voisy – the corrupt Inner Circle man Pitt defeated in court – who is standing for election as a Tory MP. Pitt must obtain information to stop Voisy’s climb to political power. Then Pitt is ordered to Southampton Row, scene of the hideous murder of a spiritual medium. As the link between the spiritualist and political figures is revealed, the whispers of scandal grow louder. And with Charlotte in hiding for safety, Pitt must turn to his sister-in-law, Emily, to help him solve one of his most high-profile cases yet…

Anne Perry Pitt – 23 – Seven Dials

A diplomat has been shot and Thomas Pitt is called in to investigate. However, things don’t add up at the scene of the murder and Pitt is forced to tread the tense diplomatic tightrope between protecting justice, the security of his country and the safety of his family.

Anne Perry Pitt – 24 – Long Spoon Lane

You need a very long spoon indeed to dine with the devil. Early one summer morning while the pavements are still empty, two bombs explode in an East London street, shattering most of the houses. Forewarned of an attack by anarchists, Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch arrives in time to chase the bombers to a run-down tenement in Long Spoon Lane. There, two men are arrested and one shot dead – but who and where and is the killer? As Pitt starts to investigate the crime, he uncovers truths more disturbing than the acts of a few misguided idealists. There’s a web of corruption within the police force, and all the clues point to Inspector Wetron of Bow Street as its mastermind. Worse, as head of the sinister, invisible Inner Circle, Wetron has powerful allies in every sphere, and it’s almost impossible to pin his guilt to him. Fears aroused by the attack are being whipped up by the press, and a bill to arm the London police is about to be rushed through Parliament. Then Pitt’s most deadly enemy, Sir Charles Voisey, approaches him with the proposal that they join forces, to prevent Wetron becoming the most powerful man in England. Pitt feels he has no option. In spite of the danger to himself, his family and his colleagues, he must agree.

Anne Perry Pitt – 25 – Buckingham Palace Gardens

Pitt is woken by his boss, Narraway, very early in the morning. He’s got to investigate the murder of a maid. ‘Can’t one of the more junior policemen go to the scene of the crime? ‘, grumbles Pitt. It’s at Buckingham Palace, says Narraway.

The suspects are narrowed down to a group of house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid while they’re there, the Queen is due back soon and if she finds out, she’s likely to veto any Royal support in the scheme.

While Pitt gets a fascinating glimpse of Palace life, he firmly believes in the concept of justice – yet now he witnesses people who are able to make their own laws and their own justice.

Anne Perry Pitt – 26 – Betrayal at Lisson Grove

Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery.

1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branch’s Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take a sinister turn when Narraway, Pitt’s superior, is accused of involvement in the death of an Irish informant and abruptly removed from office. Aware that her husband’s own career is also in jeopardy if he is not reinstated, Pitt’s wife Charlotte determines to help Narraway clear his name. As Charlotte and Narraway depart for Ireland and Pitt is drawn deeper into the investigation in France, it becomes clear that outside forces have conspired to separate them at a crucial time in the country’s history. With no one else to trust can they make it back to England and stop the revolt before it’s too late?

(These are not the audible releases. About half are narrated by Davina Porter, with others narrated by Michael Page, Gordon Griffin, Terry Wale, Kenneth Shanley, David McCallum, etc. Most are CD rips, but a few of the ones in the middle are from cassettes and have an echoing quality.)