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Title: The Whitechapel Conspiracy by Anne Perry ISBN: 0-449-00656-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another view of the JACK the RIPPER legend...
Comment: Anne Perry paces her telling of the Jack the Ripper legend well. The possible involvement of aristocratic Orders of English Free Masonry(opposing a shadowy cabal of anarchists called The INNER CIRCLE)in conspiracy to save the Monarchy--at cost of gruesome murders and religious/ethnic persecution--works, because the story is CHARACTER rather than plot driven. Many are familiar with the unsolved Jack the Ripper story(My favortie movie version is MURDER BY DECREE).But readers will enjoy this "parallax view" because characters...Detective Thomas Pitt, his wife; her maid and friend Gracie;their aristocratic aunt Vespasia and numerous enemies...are well-drawn and engage as authentic individuals, not mere "voices". The mystery is not as labyrinthine as it might be. But clever devices of "police procedural" employed create an ambience of menace and suspence making THE WHITECHAPEL CONSPIRACY a "bloody good" read......
Rating: 4
Summary: The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Comment: I have always enjoyed reading Anne Perry's Victorian mysteries. Of course, I have enjoyed some more than others because like every writer Perry has moments when the story seems to elude her and the characters true nature and motive fail to interest the audience. Not so in The Whitechapel Conspiracy. Here Perry is in her element weaving a brilliant tale of death and betrayal.
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt are back in full force as an unstoppable team. Inspector Pitt runs afoul of a powerful secrete society when his testimony sends heroic solider John Adinett to the gallows for the murder of Martin Fetters, traveler and antiquarian.
Adinett has powerful friends, who in order to punish Pitt, strip him of his command of Bow Street Station and compel him to leave his family and go undercover,seeking anarchists, in the slum neighborhood of Spitalfields.
Although separated from his family, Pitt is not abandoned by them. His wife Charlotte, their maid Gracie, and Pitt's subordinate, Sergeant Tellman set out to prove Adinett's guilt and restore Pitt's honor.
Anne Perry weaves a tale of conspiricy that brings us face to face with powerful men who work within the government toward one end, the overthrow of the monarchy. Interwoven with this is a subplot that will delight Jack The Ripper fans and have them begging for more.
I enjoyed this book not just because it was well written and spellbinding, but also because it reminded me of a favorite movie of mine "Murder By Decree" set in the same time period.
I would have liked Charlotte's Aunt Vespasia to have been less "love struck" and more of her forcefull self, but then that would be perfection and that's asking the impossible.
Rating: 4
Summary: RIPPING GOOD TALE!
Comment: This was my second Pitt adventure, Southampton Row being my introduction to Anne Perry's characters Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. Since this book was referred to so often in Southampton Row I felt I should read it to get the full scenario. It was certainly a good read.
Having been on a "Jack the Ripper" tour on a dark and rainy night last April, I was intrigued as to whom would be the most prominent suspect. Even though this book was about far more than "Jack", it was spot on with the theory of a "royal" being involved and certainly better than the yarn that Patricia Cornwell is trying to thrust upon us! The Inner Circle and corruption in both politics and police is really the storyline here.
After the trial of Adinett I felt I could actually see Thomas and Charlotte sitting in their cozy kitchen facing this nightmare together. It seemed all too real and plausible to me and I could easily fit the scenes into 2002 and the corruption that is floating all around us. I admire the active roles that both Charlotte and Gracie took, and not being caught up in the shy reserved woman's roles of their time. It was interesting that Pitt tampered with the crime scene at the sugar factory; I hope it does help him in future episodes to be more understanding of his own suspects and how frail humanity in the most honest of people can be. It served a more just cause, but he could have been fired and even possibly prosecuted for "doing the right thing". I was also surprised by the ending and admire Vespasia's strength and courage. Can we see more of her?
So glad to have stumbled upon this author and look forward to devouring her previous novels.
I am now working on Brunswick Gardens.....let you know soon!
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Title: Half Moon Street by Anne Perry ISBN: 0449006557 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Southampton Row by Anne Perry ISBN: 0345440048 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Ashworth Hall by Anne Perry ISBN: 0449000869 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Brunswick Gardens by Anne Perry ISBN: 0449003183 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Pentecost Alley by Anne Perry ISBN: 0449225666 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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