Recommend this book, if you like this series-but also if you like the historical time when policemen were just beginning to create themselves into a trusted group-who have to find ways to overcome class lines in getting the aristocracy to cooperate in their investigations. Others may feel differently-but that is my only concern-and really, a small one at that. So it is a bit jarring when the ending seems to come all of a sudden. She takes pages (hours, for the listener) laying out complex plots, developing the characters in minute ways (which is part of what makes them so good-she is such a keen observer of human minds and behaviors). My only (very tiny) complaint is that Perry sometimes ends her stories a little too abruptly. Perry has an interesting way of weaving concepts of good and evil into some of her books-and some of the characters in this one are excellent examples of that mixture. But this morphs into a far more serious situation when someone they all know unexpectedly turns up dead.
In this book, Pitt is first investigating what are almost comical incidents of grave robbing, though certainly not funny to the people involved. This makes for an enjoyable mystery experience. This book involves a complex story-leading the listener along several lines of plot development before pulling things together.
Martins Press, Ballantine Books, 2009, 1981. When one of the corpses happens to be an artist thought to be visiting Paris, the investigation sizzles. I very much enjoy Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. NoveList Series: Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 4. Perry evicts talking of fashion in this novel, but spends much time on the plight of the uneducated and poor that frequent the workhouses.
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