London (England) -- Fiction

The death of a petty moneylender leads Inspector Thomas Pitt and his well-connected wife, Charlotte, to the doorsteps of London's most powerful citizenry, and to shocking secrets and further death.

Kathy Cole refuses to stay at home with her bitter drunkard of a father and trains to be a nurse during World War One. Thrown together with Tom, Kathy becomes pregnant as the war ends, and she returns to London. She makes a decision about the future, thinking it to be the only one possible, with ...

The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to begin. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1989.