Love the series and author's work in general. Don’t remember when I read this … no dates.
Audio playback at 2-3 for better results . ( )

MPs killed to avenge old crime

Parl. members killed
starved herself to death for women's right to vote! — Be heard — very embarrassing to husband! Tom. Pitt + wife + Emily

The gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is most elegantly attired --- fresh boutonniere, silk hat, white evening scarf --- and he is quite, quite dead, as a result of his thoroughly cut throat.

Why should anyone kill Sir Lockwood Hamilton, that kindest of family men and most conscientious member of Parliament? Before Inspector Thomas Pitt can even speculate on the reasons, a colleague of Sir Lockwood's meets the same fate in the same spot.

En quelques jours, trois membres du Parlement britannique sont retrouvés morts, engorgés et attachés par leur écharpe sur le pont de Westminster. Meurtres passionnels, vengeances politiques ou œuvres d'un malade mental ? Les soupçons se portent rapidement sur le mouvement féministe naissant, qui se bat pour l'obtention du suffrage féminin et l'égalité des droits. Avec ses références historiques et sociales très documentées, mais jamais pédantes, cette nouvelle plongée dans l'univers victorien est sans doute une des meilleures de la série des enquêtes de Charlotte et William Pitt que j'aie lues. ( )

Like most Charlotte and Thomas Pitt books, this was a bit long--though not as long as many of them. A nice weaving of human rights (which is what it boils down to), the end of the Victorian Age, religious freedom, freedom of conscience, and the treatment of the insane.

Blessings on all the stalwart women who went before: both those who fought for our rights and those who endured stalwartly the repression of their spirits. ( )