The Whitechapel Conspiracy Author:Anne Perry Number 21 Charlotte and Thomas Pitt. — It is 1892 and the killing of Whitechapel prostitutes by a man dubbed Jack the Ripper is a frightening enigma. Thomas Pitt testifies in a case in which a distinguished soldier John Adinett is sentenced to hang for the inexplicable murder of his friend Martin Fetters. Although Pitt should receive praise for p... more »roviding key evidence in the trial, Adinett's powerful friends force him from his Bow St. command. When he has to move to another area without his family, his clever wife Charlotte and intrepid maid Gracie try to discover the reason for Adinett's crime to prove Pitt's testimony was correct.« less