New York: Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition 1996 Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. 16th Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery novel set in Victorian London. Former owner small bookplate on endpaper. Red and black binding with gilt titles to spine is clean and unmarked, solid, tight, square. Internals also as new. Bright and glossy jacket is not price-clipped. A sojourn among the splendors and squalor of Victorian London. The ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But under the victim's body t he police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name Finlay Fitzjames--the name of the son of a wealthy and powerful man, a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case (from the jacket). 405 pp. 8vo. 1996, Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, New York. 0449906353 9780449906354 US

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Bookseller: The Parnassus BookShop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 028573
Title: Pentecost Alley (Pitts #16)
Author: PERRY, ANNE
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0449906353
ISBN 13: 9780449906354
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1996
Size: 8vo - over 7
Keywords: OLICE LONDON BRITISH MYSTERY VICTORIAN SCOTLAND YARD PITT, CHARLOTTE AND THOMAS (FICTITIOUS CHARACTERS)
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
X weight: 0 oz

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