Perry does a nice job with some plot twists, even if most readers will quickly discount the heir to the throne of England as a viable suspect. Though the sensitive nature of Pitt's assignment precludes any active involvement by Charlotte, his wife and partner in earlier cases, he's able to place her maid, Gracie Phipps, on the palace staff to assist him.

They travelled through the streets of London in the Diamond. Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry audiobook. The King and Queen were welcomed at Westminster Abbeys Great West Door by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who will anoint and crown them. Pitt soon eliminates the members of the sizable household staff as suspects, narrowing his focus to the prince himself and his close friends, who, it turns out, have been planning a major construction project in Africaâ€”a railway that would run from South Africa to Egypt. With a plot as winding as the 6,000-mile railroad that stretches the full length of Africa, upon which this mystery is based, Anne Perrys latest delves into subterranean aspects of the aristocracy, probing emotions as well as morality and politics. asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham Palace to discuss a fantastic idea. but trapped in the hedonistic world of 1920s Havana. In 1893, the discovery of a prostitute's mutilated corpse in a Buckingham Palace cupboard after a stag party presided over by the prince of Wales could spell political disaster for the monarchy. A stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to the U.S. The detecting and diplomatic skills of Thomas Pitt, now assigned to the Special Branch, are tested as never before in bestseller Perry's solid 25th novel to feature the Victorian sleuth (after 2005's Long Spoon Lane