Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall (USA 2011) From the Publisher: Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall. A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel. Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345514219 (October, 2011), 373 p., $15.00.
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Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall (UK 1999) From the Publisher: Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall. A Victorian Murder Mystery. HarperCollins, ISBN: 0006510914 (December, 1999), 416 p., £5.99.
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Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall (USA 1998) From the Publisher: Unless Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, can root out the truth, simmering hatreds and passions may again explode in murder, the home rule movement may collapse, and civil war may destroy all of Ireland... Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall. A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel. Fawcett Books, ISBN: 0449000869 (February, 1998), 373 p., $7.50.
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Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall (USA 1997) From the Publisher: The gathering has the appearance of a smart autumn house party -- stunning womena and powerful men enjoying a few days of leisurely pleasure in a setting of exquisite beauty. In fact, the guests are Irish Protestants and Catholics gathered in a reluctant parley over home rule for Ireland, a problem that has plagued the British Isles since the reign of Elizabeth I. When the meeting's moderator, government bigwig Ainsley Greville, is found murdered in his bath, the negotations seemed doomed. Superintendent Thomas Pitt of Scotland Yard almost despairs as divorce proceedings involving the great Irish Nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell and his mistress, Kitty O'Shea, become an open scandal. To make matters worse, it seems the late Greville himself may have had a less than savory personal life. The surviving guests -- six men and five women -- unleash their true feelings, or perhaps only pretend to do so. Their servants follow suit. Unless Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, can root out the truth, simmering passions above and below stairs may again explode in murder, the hopeful home rule movement may collapse, and civil war may destroy Ireland. Never before has Pitt borne such terrible responsibilities, and never has Charlotte been less able to share them. Anne Perry: Ashworth Hall. A Novel. Fawcett Columbine, ISBN: 0449908445 (March, 1997), 373 p., $24.00.
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