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Death with a double edge /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perry, Anne. Daniel Pitt novel ; Publisher: New York : Ballantine, [2021]Copyright date: �2021Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 293 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780593159330
  • 0593159330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Death with a double edge.DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6066.E693 D447 2021
Summary: "Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy's most powerful shipbuilders in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry"--Summary: When junior barrister Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, the victim is a senior barrister from the same firm. What was this respected colleague doing in such a rough part of the city? Daniel and his friend Tom Kitteridge must investigate on their own, lest the police uncover something that may cast a suspicious light on the firm. Their inquiries lead to a local brothel and to an opium den, but also to a wealthy shipbuilder crucial to Britain's effort to build up its fleet, which may soon face the fearsome naval might of Germany. Daniel's investigation is so unwelcome that even his father, Special Branch head Thomas Pitt, receives a chilling warning from a powerful source. -- adapted from jacketOther editions: Reproduction of (manifestation):: Perry, Anne. Death with a double edge
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F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000581235

Sequel to: One fatal flaw.

"Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Headline Publishing Group, London, in 2020"--Title page verso.

"Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy's most powerful shipbuilders in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry"--

When junior barrister Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, the victim is a senior barrister from the same firm. What was this respected colleague doing in such a rough part of the city? Daniel and his friend Tom Kitteridge must investigate on their own, lest the police uncover something that may cast a suspicious light on the firm. Their inquiries lead to a local brothel and to an opium den, but also to a wealthy shipbuilder crucial to Britain's effort to build up its fleet, which may soon face the fearsome naval might of Germany. Daniel's investigation is so unwelcome that even his father, Special Branch head Thomas Pitt, receives a chilling warning from a powerful source. -- adapted from jacket

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