Long spoon lane anne perry6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. Perry manages to paint a convincing historical backdrop with echoes of modern-day fears of urban terrorism. Long Spoon Lane Anne Perry 3.97 2,912 ratings154 reviews Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. The action slows when myriad characters, including wives, servants and politicians, hold excessively detailed discussions of the case, but the pace picks up with a spirited pursuit through London and across the Thames. True-to-life parliamentary debate ensues over how much power police should be granted to quash the anarchist threat to Queen and country. Pitt and fellow detective Victor Narraway soon find themselves up against a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle. ![]() The chase leads to the group's lair in an abandoned building along grimy Long Spoon Lane, where the body of Magnus Landsborough, son of a well-connected lord, raises disturbing questions about both the young man's association with the underground cell and police procedures to combat terrorists. As he conducts an internal investigation of the affairs of his office and the police as a whole, Pitt uncovers vast corruption with Bow Street Inspector Wetron. ![]() (2003), when Special Branch investigator Thomas Pitt is summoned in the middle of the night to the aftermath of a bombing, the work of unknown anarchists intent on wreaking havoc in London in revenge for high-level police corruption. ![]() Carnage comes early in Perry's engrossing Victorian historical, the follow-up to Seven Dials ![]()
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