While the Ellisons were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was one of a number of young women garrotted to death.  Inspector Thomas Pitt investigates the scene and finds that no one is above suspicion.  As his intense questioning causes many a composed facade to crumble, Pitt finds himself drawn to the independently minded Charlotte Ellison.  Yet a romance between a society girl and so unsuitable a suitor was impossible in the midst of a murder investigation....

The bodies of two newborns are discovered buried in a garden in the posh Callander Square region of London.  Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, begin solving the crime from two different perspectives.  While Pitt pursues his investigations, Charlotte, behind the scenes, is rattling the closets of the very rich, listening to gossip and unearthing truths that could push even the most proper aristocrat to murder...

The residents of Paragon Walk tighten their lips when Inspector Pitt begins his investigation after young Fannie Nash is murdered.  Pitt’s wife, Charlotte, with the assistance of her sister Emily, discover the ugly secrets that lurk behind the respectable face of Victorian society, something that could lead to more scandal, and more murder...

It is bad enough that the recently deceased Lord Fitzroy-Hammond has been removed from his grave, but when it happens a second time and then other buried corpses start popping up, Pitt is puzzled indeed.  Is the perpetrator trying to hide a murder or call attention to one?  The answer lies in a convoluted but logical merging of art, blackmail, politics, pornography and prostitution....

When an upper class boy is found violated and dead in London’s most dangerous slums, Inspector Pitt is shocked, but when his family refuse to answer any of Pitt’s questions, he begins to wonder what secrets they are trying so desperately to hide.  Charlotte refuses to be sidelined from Pitt’s work and begins her own investigation into this oh-so-proper family...

When Charlotte learned of her mother’s distress in losing a locket with a compromising picture in it, she did not know it was the beginning of several bizarre events that would end in sudden death.  Hidden beneath the sumptuous elegance of Rutland Place were terrible secrets, secrets so horrible that only murder would conceal them...

When a doctor is found brutally murdered, even the neighbourhood’s most hardened residents are stunned.  Then three more bodies are found, killed in the same inexpert way and Pitt and Charlotte race against time to find the killer, as a treacherous mystery unfolds...

When George March, a womanising aristocrat, is found dead over his morning coffee, his wife Emily is accused of murder.  But Emily’s sister is the indomitable Charlotte, who, with her husband Thomas, take on the seemingly irreproachable March clan and discover an insidious web of corruption and depravity that leads them from the elegance of Cardington Crescent into the hideous London slums, and more murder...

When Pitt is asked to re-open a three-year old murder case which had taken place in London’s luxurious Hanover Close, he knows that his superiors want him to handle the investigation delicately, diplomatically and smooth everything over.  But that is not the way Pitt operates!  While Charlotte penetrates behind the reserve of high society to do her own brand of detective work, Pitt discovers more shocking secrets that could lead to further deaths, even his own...

The elegant gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is definitely dead – his throat has been slit.  Then two more meet the same fate; they are, it transpires, all Members of Parliament and had recently voted against women’s suffrage.  The public is outraged.  Charlotte, with the help of her Great Aunt, Vespasia, play sleuths behind the scenes while Pitt pursues his investigations and another victim is being stalked...