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ID: 465525
Title: Death with a Double Edge
Author: Anne Perry
Narrator: Samuel Roukin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:40:11
Language: English
Release date: 04-13-21
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction
Summary:
Daniel Pitts investigation into a colleagues murder leads him through Londons teeming underbelly to the suspicious dealings of one of Englands most influential shipbuilding magnates, in this thrilling new novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.
When junior barrister Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he knows only that the victim is a senior barrister from his own firm. So Daniel must contemplate this question: What was this respected colleague doing in such a rough part of the city? The firms head, Marcus fford Croft, may know more than he admits, but fford Crofts memory is not what it used to be, and his daughter, MiriamDaniels sometime sidekickisnt in the country to offer her usual help. And so Daniel and his close friend Toby Kitteridge must investigate on their own, lest the police uncover something that may cast a suspicious light on the firm.
Their inquiries in Mile End lead them to a brothel and an opium den, but alsounexpectedlyto a wealthy shipbuilder crucial to Britains effort to build up its fleet, which may soon face the fearsome naval might of Germany. Daniel finds his path blocked by officials at every turn, his investigation so unwelcome that even his father, Special Branch head Thomas Pitt, receives a chilling warning from a powerful source. Suddenly, not just Daniel but his whole familyincluding his beloved mother, Charlotteis in danger. Will Daniels devotion to justice be the undoing of his entire life, and endanger Britains defense at sea? As ever, the fates of family and history are inextricably intertwined in this spellbinder from Anne Perry.
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