Bedford Square (Inspector Pitt) [Import] [Hardcover]

Anne Perry (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (June 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747273375
• ISBN-13: 978-0747273370
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including The Cater Street Hangman, Calandar Square, Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade, and We Shall Not Sleep, as well as six holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Grace. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of Perry's Best Pitt Thrillers, October 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bedford Square (Hardcover)

I am a huge fan of Anne Perry. I have read all of her books and eagerly look forward to the next one. My actual favourite series is the William Monk series, but the Pitt ones are very good too. This particular one is a very good example of her style of writing and it would be a good book to read first in order to get into the series. Her writing puts the reader right there in Victorian England as no one else can. I never guessed what the motive could be at all and was suitably surprised with the last chapter. A really tight well-knit thriller.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Perry needs to take a break, April 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Bedford Square (Hardcover)

I'm a long-time fan of Anne Perry, but her last several books have left me disappointed. I had trouble getting started with this one, not because I found her plot lacking, but her writing has become flat and uninteresting. All her aristocrats are arrogant and haughty, all Pitt's underlings speak with a Cockney slang (which is very irritating to read) and she uses the word "tragedy" about 700 times in each book. Pitt is becoming one-note and all her secondary characters seem to blend together. Perry in earlier works drew interesting and unique characters. Now, she seems to be on automatic pilot filling in the blanks with no thought to originality and raking in the profits. While I enjoy her plots tremendously, this book in particular showed that Ms. Perry has fallen into the formula trap and she needs some time away from her word processor.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Promises much, delivers little, August 31, 2000

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Author Bill Peschel "Writers Gone Wild" (Hershey, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bedford Square: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

A dead man found on the steps of one of Victorian London's most fashionable homes kicks off the 19th mystery featuring Superintendent Thomas Pitt of the Bow Street Police Station and his clever wife, Charlotte.

Although General Brandon Balantyne denies knowing the shabbily dressed man, his snuffbox was found in the dead man's pocket. Since he's dealing with his betters in class-conscious Victorian Britain, Pitt must tread carefully as he delves into the dead man's past in hopes of finding a connection.

"Bedford Square" is a story which promises much but delivers little. There's much talk about class differences -- Pitt's constable assistant is nearly blinded in his anger against the upper classes -- and in Pitt's investigation of what turns out to be a nasty wide-ranging blackmail plot, we are repeatedly told that the victims are all pure in character and how least revelation, no matter how false, will blast their reputations so utterly that it becomes tedious. The solution to the mystery is extremely disappointing: neither making much sense, nor is it in keeping with what we know of the characters. A disappointing book to someone who wondered what all the shouting was about.