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Название книги: Seven Dials
Автор(ы): Anne Perry
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Seven-Dials-162674.html
Book 23 in the Thomas Pitt series, 2003
CHAPTER ONE
PITT OPENED HIS EYES but the thumping did not stop. The first gray of mid-September daylight showed through the curtains. It was not yet six, and there was someone at the front door.Beside him, Charlotte stirred a little in her sleep. In a moment the knocking would waken her too.He slid out of bed and moved quickly across the floor and onto the landing. He ran down the stairs in his bare feet, snatched his coat off the rack in the hall, and with one arm through the sleeve, unbolted the front door.“Good morning, sir,” Jesmond said apologetically, his hand still in the air to knock again. He was about twenty-four, seconded from one of the local London police stations to Special Branch, and he considered it to be a great promotion. “Sorry, sir,” he went on. “But Mr. Narraway wants you, straightaway, like.”Pitt saw the waiting hansom just beyond him, the horse fidgeting a little, its breath hanging vapor in the air. “All right,” he said with irritation. It was not a particu
Название книги: Seven Dials
Автор(ы): Anne Perry
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Seven-Dials-162674.html
Book 23 in the Thomas Pitt series, 2003
CHAPTER ONE
PITT OPENED HIS EYES but the thumping did not stop. The first gray of mid-September daylight showed through the curtains. It was not yet six, and there was someone at the front door.Beside him, Charlotte stirred a little in her sleep. In a moment the knocking would waken her too.He slid out of bed and moved quickly across the floor and onto the landing. He ran down the stairs in his bare feet, snatched his coat off the rack in the hall, and with one arm through the sleeve, unbolted the front door.“Good morning, sir,” Jesmond said apologetically, his hand still in the air to knock again. He was about twenty-four, seconded from one of the local London police stations to Special Branch, and he considered it to be a great promotion. “Sorry, sir,” he went on. “But Mr. Narraway wants you, straightaway, like.”Pitt saw the waiting hansom just beyond him, the horse fidgeting a little, its breath hanging vapor in the air. “All right,” he said with irritation. It was not a particu
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