



Charlotte's well-intentioned interference in her husband's investigations gives Pitt access to information which enables him to solve the case. Charlotte relies on her maid, Gracie, to take care for her children, Jemima and Daniel, when she is investigating a mystery. Charlotte frequently uses Emily's connections to the landed gentry and aristocracy to assist Pitt in his investigations. Her sister Emily's first husband was a viscount and Emily's second husband is a rising politician. His wife, Charlotte (née Ellison), is from an upper-class family. Later he is promoted to commander as Head of Special Branch. those with sufficient influence and power, and joins the Special Branch, in which he becomes an inspector. Later he is removed from his job as a result of investigating the "wrong people", i.e. He was prompted to enter the police force after his father was wrongly accused of poaching game and transported to Australia.Īt the beginning of the series, Pitt is a police inspector, but was promoted to superintendent. His father was a gamekeeper on a landed estate and Pitt was educated alongside the son of the house. Pitt is from a working-class background in Victorian London. They are both involved in the investigation and solving of cases in the series. Thomas Pitt is the protagonist in a series of detective novels by Anne Perry in the first of which he meets his future wife, Charlotte Ellison.
