![]() ![]() ![]() Under the auspices of the newly created Special Branch, Pitt is charged with learning whether Voisey has any "unguarded vulnerabilities." The odds against Pitt succeeding are high Voisey may be "shallow, self-important condescending," but he impresses voters as more charismatic and less controversial than his opponent, Aubrey Serracold, who's also hobbled by his connection to the recent slaying of a popular spiritualist. ![]() Only months later, though, he's back on top, running for a seat in Parliament. Yet Anne Perry's Southampton Row again finds him displaced from his police command, this time to foil the political ambitions of a ruthless republican.Ĭharles Voisey, leader of a powerful secret society known as the Inner Circle, was defeated by Pitt when he tried (in The Whitechapel Conspiracy) to abolish the British monarchy. Thomas Pitt prefers the grim routine of murder investigations to the riskier probing of Victorian governmental intrigues. ![]()
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