Rich with authentic period details and blending suspenseful mystery with a budding romance between Inspector Pitt and Charlotte Ellison, The Cater Street Hangman launched the long-running series by Edgar Award–winning author Anne Perry, with recent titles including The Angel Court Affair and Treachery at Lancaster Gate. As their relationship shifts from antagonistic sparring to a romantic connection, the socially mismatched pair must solve the mystery before the hangman strikes again. Outspoken Charlotte Ellison, struggling to remain within the confining boundaries of Victorian manners, has no trouble expressing herself to the irritating policeman. His in-depth investigation gradually peels away the proper veneer of the elite world, exposing secrets and desires until suspicion becomes more frightening than truth. Inspector Pitt, assigned to the case, must break through the walls of upper-class society to get at the truth.
Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swollen-faced bodies on the dark streets of this genteel neighborhood. Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. In this altogether satisfactory inaugural installment, mention will also be made of atheism, abortion, “pernicious sermons,” and many-limbed Kali, the Mother Goddess of overly erotic India.In the debut of the New York Times–bestselling Victorian crime series, Inspector Thomas Pitt seeks an elusive strangler among upper-class British society. “Where do you suspect the underworld is?” Pitt asks Charlotte, contemplating the stricken faces of impoverished children in the usual killer fog. Victorian England, circa 1881, is as gloomy and repressed as we have been led to believe by everybody from Jack the Ripper to Steven Marcus. Keeley, with her steel specs and winsome bangs, is as nosy as she is delicious. Eoin, with his chiseled Irish mug, is as sensitive as he is relentless. A&E), we have the first of what looks to be a promising string of two-hour TV movies based on her Inspector Pitt, under A&E’s “Mysteries to Die For” umbrella.Įoin McCarthy ( Tomorrow Never Dies) stars as Pitt, the class-conscious copper, and Keeley Hawes ( The Moonstone) as Charlotte Ellison, his upper-crust squeeze, whom he will meet here for the first time – while investigating the serial murders of young women alone on Charlotte’s street at night after a visit to the vicarage – and whom he will subsequently marry, so as to have a spy among the resting classes.
Now, at last, with The Cater Street Hangman (Sunday, December 13 9 to 11 p.m. Fans of Anne Perry – and I am resolutely iffy – have been waiting a long time for some visualization of her nineteenth-century mystery novels.
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