TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry,Anne
TI  - Treachery at Lancaster Gate
T2  - Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel
SN  - 9781410487391 (large print : hardback)
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Metropolitan Police Office
KW  - Special Branch
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character)
KW  - Pitt, Charlotte (Fictitious character)
KW  - Bombings
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Women detectives
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Police spouses
KW  - Police
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - When an explosion in London kills two policemen and seriously injures three more, many believe that anarchists are the culprits. But Thomas Pitt, commander of Special Branch, knows the city's radical groups well enough to suspect otherwise: that someone with decidedly more personal motives lit the deadly fuse. As he investigates the source of the fatal blast, he's stunned to discover the bombing was a calculated strike against the ranks of law enforcement. But still more shocking revelations await, as Pitt's inquiries lead him to a member of Parliament hoping for a lucrative business deal, a high-ranking police officer with secrets to keep, and an aristocratic opium addict seeking murderous revenge. As he pursues each increasingly threatening lead, Pitt finds himself impeded at every turn by the barriers put in place to protect the rich and powerful -- barriers which, as they start to crumble, threaten to bury him alive
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