Long Spoon Lane
Charlotte & Thomas Pitt • Book 24
by Anne Perry
Narrated by Jenny Sterlin
About This Audiobook
A series of anarchist bombings tears through London, destroying the homes of the poor and terrifying the public — but Thomas Pitt's investigation reveals that the terrorism is being exploited by a police inspector who has built a network of corruption and wants the public frightened enough to accept legislation that would give him unprecedented power. The twenty-fourth Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel is one of the series' most explicitly political, placing Victorian civil liberties under direct threat and making Pitt an unlikely defender of constitutional principles.
Jenny Sterlin narrates the Pitt series with the attention to period voice and social register that Victorian mystery requires. Her handling of the political argument — making Wetron's scheme both comprehensible and genuinely alarming — gives the novel's stakes the historical credibility Perry's research supports. At just over 12 hours, Long Spoon Lane is a more socially engaged entry than the series often attempts.
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