Brunswick Gardens - Hardcover

Perry, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786214643 ISBN 13: 9780786214648

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1998

Synopsis

In Victorian England, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt venture into an Anglican church to find out who murdered a pretty advocate of Darwin's theories

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Like the great Victorian novelists whose mantle she wears with such distinction, Anne Perry creates a rich and intimate world and fills it with remarkably vivid characters who experience the majesty--and shame--of the British Empire at its brilliant zenith. Now, in Brunswick Gardens, she explores the controversial birth of a philosophy that enflamed fiery debate--and possibly murder.

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 staircase to her death, Thomas Pitt, com

About the Author:

Among Anne Perry's other novels featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt are Pentecost Alley, Traitors Gate, The Hyde Park Headsman, Highgate Rise, and Ashworth Hall, which was a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. She also writes the popular novels featuring investigator William Monk, including The Silent Cry, a Main Selection of the Mystery Guild, Weighed in the Balance, Cain His Brother, and Defend and Betray. "Her grasp of Victorian character and conscience still astonishes,  said The Cleveland Plain Dealer about the author. Hundreds of thousands of readers agree.

About the Reader
David McCallum, best known for his starring role in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., has appeared in numerous films including The Great Escape.  He has been seen on television in Murder, She Wrote, Perry Mason, and Matlock.  His theater appearances include Camelot, California Suite, and Deathtrap.  He has read all the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries for Random House AudioBooks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0786214643
• ISBN 13: 9780786214648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 656