Anne Perry

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

South Carolina

A Novel

Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's former maid Gracie helps out a good friend who was unceremoniously fired. Gracie knows she has to find out what happened. At first, it seems that all is normal in the household between the couple and the elderly granny who mostly keeps to her bedroom upstairs. Gracie slowly realizes, though, that Granny is suffering from neglect - and rather than helping her, the husband and wife have decided she isn't dying fast enough. Print run 30,000.

A Christmas Legacy

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Daniel Pitt Novel

A killer is on the loose, targeting victims with a mysterious connection that young barrister Daniel Pitt must deduce before more bodies pile up, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.

A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders happen on rainy nights, but Ian knows the victims must have something in common beyond the weather. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, Daniel's good friend and now officially one of the first female pathologists in London, to tap her scientific know-how to find details he and Daniel have missed.

With Miriam involved in the murder investigation, Ian passes Daniel the case of Nicholas Wolford, their former university professor. Charged with assault after reacting violently to an accusation of plagiarism, Wolford, a proud, boastful man, is loath to admit he was in the wrong. But Daniel must defend him--whether he likes him or not.

As the murders continue with no clue as to who is committing them, Miriam, Daniel, and Ian find themselves questioning everything. Is the "Rainy-day Slasher," as the newspapers have dubbed the killer, really just one person? Or have the investigators stumbled into a more complicated web of deceit? The answer may lie closer than anyone could have expected.

Three Debts Paid

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

In a mystery set in Victorian England, a perplexed groom hires private investigator William Monk to find his missing fiancTe, Miriam, who vanished suddenly from a posh party and has not been seen since that night. Reprint.

The Twisted Root

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Book 1-13 William Monk historical mysteries by Anne Perry. Selling as a set for less $ than the individual books would cost. More pictures/information on request. 

Note: Anne Perry’s books are a little darker in tone than many “cozy” mysteries, but they are not quite as graphic as other mysteries.

Book conditions as follows - heavy spine creasing rated "fair" even if no other issues:
1 Face of a Stranger - good
2 Dangerous Mourning - excellent
3 Defend and Betray - excellent
4 Sudden Fearful Death - good
5 Sins of the Wolf - fair
6 Cain his Brother - fair
7 Weighed in the Balance - good
8 Silent Cry - fair
9 Breach of Promise - fair
10 Twisted Root - excellent
11 Slaves of Obsession - good
12 Funeral in Blue - fair
13 Death of a Stranger - fair

📚 Will be shipped in recycled ♻️ box.

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Minnesota

Face of a Stranger

Anne Perry bundle William Monk & Hester Latterly #1-13

'Tis the season of giving--and with this wonderful book, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry shares a brand-new holiday mystery filled with bygone relationships and hidden secrets.

As Charlotte Pitt's grandmother Mariah Ellison finds herself investigating a long-unsolved slaying, it becomes clear that grappling with intrigue and foul play runs in the family. A festive Christmas package left on Mariah's doorstep contains an ominous present, sparking memories of a twenty-year-old murder that shattered her friendship with the victim's widow. Though the gift is a bitter reminder of that tragic time, in the spirit of the season Mariah travels to Surrey in hopes of reconciling with her estranged friend and solving the crime that drove them apart. 

On arrival, Mariah joins forces with the murdered man's grandson, a sleuth in his own right who's discovered promising evidence as well as a suspect. But Surrey's picturesque hills conceal dark doings and shocking revelations that could make the holiday anything but calm and bright.

Decked with intrigue and trimmed with Yuletide spirit, A Christmas Return is a holiday treat wrapped in the glorious storytelling talents of the reigning master of Victorian mystery.

Praise for A Christmas Return

"This compact little gem, [Anne] Perry's fifteenth Christmas novella, demonstrates her proficiency in writing Victorian-set mysteries. . . . The atmosphere of close-knit village life in the 1890s feels pitch-perfect, from the homeliness of residents' holiday decor to the gossip that spreads like a dreadful stain. The characterization is superb, and the work's short length is perfect for the material. The spirit of the Christmas season is cleverly evoked through the underlying theme that it's never too late for reconciliations and second chances."--Historical Novels Review (Editors' Choice)
 
"Perry's many fans will enjoy another winning Victorian-era mystery set during the holidays."--Library Journal
 
"Exceptional . . . Perry unobtrusively incorporates insights about the true meaning of the season into the engrossing plot."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A Christmas Return

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Books 1-16 Thomas and Charlotte Pitt historical mysteries by Anne Perry. Selling as a set for less than they would be individually. More pictures on request. I bought these used just to read. 
Note: Anne Perry’s books are a little darker in tone than many “cozy” mysteries, but they are not quite as graphic as other mysteries.
Book conditions as follows (more details upon request): 
1 Cater Street Hangman - good
2 Callander Square - good
3 Paragon Walk - good
4 Resurrection Row - good
5 Rutland Place - excellent
6 Bluegate Fields - excellent
7 Death in the Devil's Acre - good
8 Cardington Crescent - fair
9 Silence in Hanover Close - good
10 Bethlehem Road - good
11 Highgate Rise - fair
12 Belgrave Square - good
13 Farriers' Lane - fair
14 Hyde Park Headsman - good
15 Traitor's Gate - good
16 Pentecost Alley - fair, ex-library

4/7 weight corrected for packaging; 📚will be shipped in a recycled ♻️ box

Cater Street Hangman 

Anne Perry bundle Thomas and Charlotte Pitt #1-16

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

New York

Bow Street Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, return in an intricately plotted and highly atmospheric novel of murder and political conspiracy that moves from elegant drawing rooms to the most desperate slums in late Victorian London. An Anne Perry novel is a delight to read as much for its Victorian-era details as for the mystery it unfolds.--Chicago Tribune.

1st ed./1st * The Whitechapel Conspiracy

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Very good clean tight unread condition. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, thisNew York Timesbestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftly passing. Theirs was a peace that led to war. On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph’s brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning that Joseph and Matthew dared mention it only to their restless younger sister. Now it has vanished. What has happened to this explosive document, if indeed it ever existed? How had it fallen into the hands of their father, a quiet countryman? Not even Matthew, with his Intelligence connections, can answer these questions. And Joseph is soon burdened with a second tragedy: the shocking murder of his most gifted student, beautiful Sebastian Allard, loved and admired by everyone. Or so it appeared. Meanwhile, England’s seamless peace is cracking—as the distance between the murder of an Austrian archduke by a Serbian anarchist and the death of a brilliant university student by a bullet to the head of grows shorter by the day. Anne Perry is a sublime master of suspense. InNo Graves As Yet, her latest haunting masterpiece, she reminds us that love and hate, cowardice and courage, good and evil are always a part of life, in our own time as well as on the eve of the greatest war the world has ever known.

1st ed./1st * No Graves as Yet

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Very good clean tight copy, spines slides slightly. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

1996 1st ed./1st * Pentecost Alley

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The third novel in Anne Perry's breathtakingly tense and exciting spy thriller series, featuring young British photographer and secret agent Elena Standish, set in the 1930s when the world was a place of increasing fear and uncertainty... Spring, 1934. With the threat of war looming, political tensions begin to rise... Elena Standish, a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence, is visiting her grandparents' home in Washington DC when tragedy strikes. A lavish party is held to mark her grandparent's sixtieth wedding anniversary and Elena takes pride in capturing the event on camera, but when the beautiful wife of a renowned scientist is found murdered in the driveway, allegedly run over by Elena's grandfather's car, Elena's world is turned upside down. Arrested on suspicion of murder, Wyatt Baylor protests his innocence, claiming he has enemies who are trying to frame him. But who are these enemies and how can Elena defend a man she barely knows? Turning to secret agent James Allenby for help, Elena must uncover the truth behind the events of that fateful night. But can she trust Allenby or her family and is she willing to risk everything in her pursuit of the truth?

A Darker Reality (Elena Standish Book 3)

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Ohio

A William Monk Novel

In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques--lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry.

In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice, Monk turns to London's Hungarian community in search of clues but finds his inquiries stymied by its wary citizens and a language he doesn't speak. Only with the help of a local pharmacist acting as translator can Monk hope to penetrate this tightly knit enclave, even as more of its members fall victim to identical brutal murders. But whoever the killer, or killers, may be--a secret society practicing ritual sacrifice, a madman on a spree, a British native targeting foreigners--they are well hidden among the city's ever-growing populace.

With the able assistance of his wife--former battlefield nurse Hester, who herself is dealing with a traumatized war veteran who may be tangled up in the murders--Monk must combat distrust, hostility, and threats from the very people he seeks to protect. But as the body count grows, stirring ever greater fear and anger among the Hungarian émigrés, resistance to the police also increases. Racing time and the rising tide of terror all around him, Monk must be even more relentless than the mysterious killer, or the echoes of malice and murder will resound through London's streets like a clarion of doom.

Praise for An Echo of Murder

"[Anne] Perry fashions a rich, if blood-spattered narrative from this chapter of history. As the murders [of Hungarians] continue, Monk and his clever wife, Hester . . . struggle to fathom the new climate of hatred. 'I think it's fear,' Hester says. 'It's fear of ideas, things that aren't the way you're used to. Everyone you don't understand because their language is different, their food, but above all their religion.' How times haven't changed."--The New York Times Book Review

"Skillful . . . Perry smoothly intertwines themes--war's lingering cost, tension around immigration and otherness--that challenge in both her period and our own."--Publishers Weekly

An Echo of Murder

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Pentecost Alley

California

"It's July 1917, and as the sun sets over no-man's-land so Joseph Reavley's heart sinks with it. As Chaplain he is charged with keeping up the men's morale, but as rumours of mutiny grow stronger he knows that he is losing any chance of getting through to them. Then, after the death of an officer, twelve soldiers are arrested, and it falls to Joseph to uncover the truth about their involvement." "Away from the trenches Joseph's brother Matthew, of the S.I.S., is also in pursuit of the truth, whilst struggling to come to terms with his part in the death of the man they called the Peacemaker. Approached by a Junior Cabinet Minister who is being blackmailed, Matthew learns of a plot to destroy the men who can prevent an enemy alliance and bring about lasting peace. As he embarks on a investigation, Matthew is aware that his own life is under threat but it is a small price to pay to secure the future of millions."--BOOK JACKET.

At Some Disputed Barricade *LIKE NEW*

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#hardcover #london #inspectormonk #fiction

"A richly textured and timeless novel of suspense. Her Victorian England pulsates with life and is peopled with wonderfully memorable characters." Faye Kellerman Although esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon meets his death in a freak accident at home, his beautiful wife, Alexandra, confesses that she killed him. Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and the brilliant Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the wall of silence raised by the accused and her husband's proud family. With the trial only days away, they inch toward the dark and appalling heart of the mystery. The final act is a courtroom masterpiece, through which we dare not breathe too deeply, lest the precarious balance of a woman's life be lost. From the Paperback edition.

Defend and Betray

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#hardcover #fiction #london #missinghusband

Cain His Brother

Kentucky

From New York Times bestselling author Perry comes the story of William Monk, the amnesiac private investigator who at last regains his memory while investigating corruption in the railway industry.

Death of a Stranger

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"Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat who's accused of a theft that may hide a deadly crime in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima has returned to London from the States for a visit. But it's not on the happiest of terms, since a violent theft just before her departure has left Jemima's good friend frightened and missing a treasured family heirloom. The thief appears to be a man named Sydney--a British diplomat stationed in America who, in a cowardly move, has fled to London, claiming diplomatic immunity. But when Daniel is forced to defend Sydney in court, he grows suspicious that he's not getting the whole story; so the lawyer puts on his detective hat to search out what information may be missing. With the help of plucky scientist Miriam Blackwood, Daniel parses through the evidence, and what begins as a stolen necklace turns out to have implications in crimes far greater--including a possible murder"--

Triple Jeopardy

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Delaware

When a ransom exchange turns deadly in this thrilling mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, Commander William Monk faces an unthinkable possibility: betrayal by his own men.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * "Riveting . . . one of the series' more powerful recent entries."--Publishers Weekly

When kidnappers choose a broken-down waterside slum as the site of a ransom exchange for the wife of wealthy real estate developer Harry Exeter, the Thames River Police and Commander William Monk shadow Harry to the spot to ensure that no harm comes to him or his captive wife. But on arrival, Monk and five of his best men are attacked from all sides. Certain that one of his colleagues has betrayed him, Monk delves into each of their pasts, one of which hides a dreadful secret. Soon facing a series of deadly obstructions, Monk must choose between his own safety and the chance to solve the mystery--and to figure out where his men's loyalty really lies.

Praise for Dark Tide Rising

"Perry makes cunning work of the plot, which raises issues of trust and loyalty while driving home a grim message about the vulnerability of women who entrust their fortunes to unscrupulous men."--The New York Times Book Review
 
"One of the most successful of prolific Perry's recent Victorian melodramas. The opening chapters are appropriately portentous, the mystification is authentic, and if the final surprise isn't exactly a shock, it's so well-prepared that even readers who don't gasp will nod in satisfaction."--Kirkus Reviews

"Another deftly crafted gem of a suspense thriller by a master of the mystery genre . . .  a 'must read.' "--Midwest Book Review

"Superb . . . [a] brilliant piece of historical fiction . . . No one writes Victorian-era stories quite like Perry."--BookReporter

Dark Tide Rising

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Murder strikes close to Inspector Pitt and his irrepressible wife, Charlotte, when Charlotte's brother-in-law is found dead, poisoned by his morning coffee

Cardington Crescent

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Indiana

Twenty-one days

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Some wear to dust jacket. #fiction #mystery #detective #hardcover #anneperry

An echo of murder

Virginia

In the first book of an all-new series 1910: Could Mrs. Graves's violent death have anything to do with her husband's profession? Someone in power may be framing the biographer to keep damaging secrets from coming to light. It is a theory that leads Daniel's investigation unexpectedly to London's Special Branch, and, disturbingly, to one of his father's closest colleagues. Caught between duty to the law and a fierce desire to protect his family, Daniel must call on his keen intellect, and trust his natural instincts, to find the truth in a tangle of dark deception, lest an innocent man hang for another's heinous crime.

Twenty-One Days

A historical novel set in 1865 London. #hardcover #historical #historicalfiction #mystery #fiction #monk

Wisconsin

When his friend, judge Oliver Rathbone, rashly crosses a line and inadvertently causes the death of a charismatic minister, police superintendent William Monk and his wife, Hester, navigate the perilous case to expose the truth and clear Rathbone's name. By the best-selling author of The Sheen on the Silk.

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