false 116680 16 After a less-than-impressive outing with the more-turgid-than-tense <I>Half Moon Street</I>, Anne Perry is back on familiar--and entertaining-- turf with <I>The Whitechapel Conspiracy</I>. As if apologizing for their last efforts, the whole Victorian crew seems thankfully less concerned with respecting social mores than with ratcheting up the pressure in a nicely paced political-conspiracy potboiler. <p> For Inspector Thomas Pitt, doing one's job can have unpleasant consequences. When his testimony sends distinguished soldier John Adinett to the gallows for the murder of Martin Fetters, traveler and antiquarian, Adinett's friends (members of the Inner Circle, "those men who had secret loyalties which superseded every other honor or pledge") ensure that Pitt loses his command of the Bow Street station. He is forced to leave his family and take up an undercover existence in the slum district of Spitalfields, chasing anarchists (though he feels he might as well be chasing his own tail). But when his wife, Charlotte, their maid, Gracie, and her would-be suitor, Sergeant Tellman, apply themselves to the task of restoring Pitt's good name, they uncover an anarchist's conspiracy that dwarfs even Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot. The secrets and lies of respected men lurking in the halls of power, who will stop at nothing short of abolishing the monarchy, form the backdrop for the trio's frantic investigations. To top everything off, Perry throws in a marvelously effective subplot--but to divulge how Jack the Ripper figures into the narrative would be to spoil a highly entertaining read.<p> The novel has its flaws; Charlotte's great-aunt Vespasia seems less the dynamic character she has been throughout the series than a mouthpiece of mourning for the waves of change. Yes, the reader is tempted to say, the potential downfall of the British monarchy would no doubt be painful and unspeakably unsettling for those who respect Victoria and her forebears--but must one natter endlessly on about it? Better to let the whole shebang go gracefully into that good night. No fears for contemporary Victorian-philes, though; with Thomas and Charlotte around, who could doubt that the monarchy will live to fight another day? <I>--Kelly Flynn</I> 1287764 book 2001 The Whitechapel Conspiracy total:388|5:91|4:167|3:121|2:8|1:1| 388 1503 499 12 116680 0449006565 9780449006566 374 10 3.87 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116680.The_Whitechapel_Conspiracy 5 0 false Wed Jul 23 20:51:28 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 15:03:49 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 20:51:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 930025 0345433289 9780345433282 8 2 3.87 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930025.The_Whitechapel_Conspiracy 3 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sun Oct 14 11:32:10 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 11:34:09 -0700 2007 Perry, Anne - 21st in series

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