The Cater Street Hangman -- Anne Perry

All I feel like reading lately?  Mysteries.  Specifically, fun mysteries that involve no real work on my part.

This one fit the bill--total and complete entertainment, ultra-dramatic in parts.  There are entire paragraphs that use almost no punctuation other than the question mark:

Couldn't he?  Charlotte looked at him, then surreptitiously at Dominic.  How much of people really showed in their faces?  Did any of them even guess the wildness of feeling in her?  Please heaven, no!  If such madness, such tormented hatred as this creature felt was there to see, why was this man not known already?  He must be seen by someone--family, wife, friends?  What did they think, if they knew?  Or would you refuse to believe it, turn away from the evidence, construe it as meaning something else?

Ha.  Of course, the Victorian family dynamic/social/class elements also add to the entertainment.  It's very evident early on that the police officer investigating the case has fallen in love with Charlotte.

Will Inspector Pitt solve the mystery of the Cater Street Hangman?  Where was Charlotte's father during the most recent murder?  Why doesn't he want to tell the Inspector where he was?   What EVER will Charlotte do about Inspector Pitt?  Will she spurn his advances, horrified and disgusted at his presumptuousness?  Or will she marry below her, possibly alienating herself from her family and friends? 

I was briefly fooled, but had identified the hangman before I hit the halfway point.  I can't wait to read the next one, but it's out, DAMN IT!