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Daniel Pitt Séries

Située dans le Londres tumultueux de 1910, cette série suit un avocat réticent entraîné dans des affaires enveloppées de sombres secrets. Malgré ses hésitations initiales, il découvre un lien inattendu avec le travail d'enquête de son célèbre père, détective. Ces histoires regorgent de suspense, de commentaires sociaux et de la découverte de vérités cachées dans un monde d'intrigues. Les lecteurs qui apprécient les mystères historiques et les récits centrés sur les personnages seront captivés par l'atmosphère de la série et ses intrigues complexes.

Le brasier de Tooley Street
Triple Jeopardy
Grands détectives: Un innocent à l'Old Bailey

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  1. Grands détectives: Un innocent à l'Old Bailey

    • 403pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    1910. Sir Thomas Pitt's son, Daniel, is in the middle of his first case as a barrister when he is summoned to the Old Bailey for an important trial. Renowned biographer Russell Graves is charged with the brutal murder of his wife and Daniel must assist in his defence. When the jury finds the accused guilty, Graves insists he has been framed. He is writing a shocking expose of a powerful figure, revealing state secrets so damning that someone might well have wanted to silence him. With the reputations of those closest to him at stake, Daniel has twenty-one days to uncover the truth and ensure that an innocent man isn't sent to the gallows . . .

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  2. Triple Jeopardy

    • 352pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    The second thrilling mystery in an exciting new generation of Pitt novels, from the New York Times bestselling author and queen of Victorian crime, Anne Perry. 'Anne Perry's Victorian mysteries are marvels of plot construction' New York Times Daniel Pitt is delighted that his sister is visiting London with her American husband Patrick, a policeman, and their young daughters. But Patrick's trip has another purpose, for which he enlists Daniel's help. Philip Sidney, a young British diplomat, is accused of robbery and assault in Washington, but he has taken diplomatic immunity and fled to England. The perfect opportunity to obtain justice presents itself when Sidney is accused of a small embezzlement at the British Embassy in the USA, but as Daniel digs deeper into the case it becomes clear that vengeance is involved. When a witness is murdered in America suspicion of guilt falls on Sidney. But is somebody trying to frame him? And, if so, who and why? Daniel follows a trail that uncovers another murder, and leads from Washington to the idyllic Channel Islands, then to a dramatic scene in court that almost defies belief...

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