En una cloaca de los barrios bajos de Londres aparece el cuerpo sin vida de un adolescente. Para asombro de todos, la identificación revela que se trata del primogénito de una aristocrática familia. Cuando el inspector Pitt y su esposa Charlotte empiezan a investigar el crimen, tropiezan con las reticencias de los padres del muchacho, decididos a impedir que se aireen ciertas cuestiones escabrosas. Una vez más, el caso pone de manifiesto las contradicciones entre apariencias y realidad en la Inglaterra victoriana.

Another good Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery. ( )

1886 A corpse is found in the sewers below Bluegate Fields. He turns out to be Arthur Waybourne, son of Sir Amstey Waybourne. A post-mortem reveals he was drown in a bath, and sexually abused. Inspector Pitt with the help of Charlotte attempt to find the guilty party.
An entertaining well-written Victorian mystery ( )

Pitt investigates boy killed by homosexual lover

What an excellent book by Anne Perry! A naked boy's body is found in the London sewers and Inspector Thomas Pitt is the one to investigate. Of course, he tells his young wife, Charlotte about the case and she becomes involved.
This book really tells about the differences in the English classes and Charlotte comes from the upper class but she loves Pitt, who is of the working class. But the lowest of the low, the child prostitutes are also involved in the case. Charlotte is shocked to learn of such things but she takes a stand with her sister and aunt, who try to help make other ladies aware of the terrible things that it seems is destiny for the poor children of the streets.
A man is tried for the murder of this boy, who comes from aristocracy, but Pitt is not satisfied that it is the murderer. Will an innocent man be hanged?
Something that I find is so interesting is that 100 years ago, homosexuality was against the law! Now it is almost praised. What has really happened to our society? Is this really progress, when we praise unnatural acts? ( )