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It was the most incredible thing: a corpse sitting in an empty hansom cab. And it wasn't just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm.
To Inspector Pitt and his sleuthing wife, Charlotte, this seemed the sheerest lunacy. Who would want to unearth a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond?
Such an outrage must be kept quiet, and the lord was soon reburied. But when his corpse reappeared, and in a church pew of all places, Inspector Pitt and Charlotte were determined to unearth the truth--even if it meant digging into the closely guarded secrets of London's most elegant families....