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Buckingham Palace Gardens
by Perry, Anne
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345469313
- ISBN 13
- 9780345469311
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine, 2008. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book #23 in the Victorian mystery series featuring Thomas & Charlotte Pitt, SIGNED by the AuTHOR (her name only) on title page. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 2008, this hardcover book is Fine in a Fine DJ (our highest grade): both are completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & unmarked. Unclipped DJ is equally brilliant, with no edgewear or fading. A gorgeous copy for the collector!Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries are perhaps the best loved of all her Victorian bestsellers, luring us into the multilayered richness of London, from the great mansions and secluded drawing rooms to the city's festering slums. Now, in her most mesmerizing novel yet, she invites us to a house-party at Buckingham Palace. The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the prince's gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queen's monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet.With great haste, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts' cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruited--to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests' conversations, scan their bedrooms, and scrutinize their troubled faces for clues to hidden rivalries and attachments that could have lead to murder. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young woman--as seems increasingly likely--Pitt's career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall.With a cast of wonderful characters, among them the gentle Princess of Wales, and a twisting plot that takes us into the hidden world of the royal family, Anne Perry probes deeply the hearts of men and women ensnared by their own emotions. Never has this distinguished novelist told a story with more truth and passion.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020306
- Title
- Buckingham Palace Gardens
- Author
- Perry, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0345469313
- ISBN 13
- 9780345469311
- Publisher
- Fawcett Columbine
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- LONDON ENGLAND VICTORIAN MYSTERY THOMAS CHARLOTTE PITT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery-Thriller-Suspense-Horror; Signed Books;
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