Pitt's attention is redirected back to the gentry who live near Fitzroy-Hammond and Jones. But not this one-this one has been strangled and is quickly identified as Godolphin Jones, a portrait artist also living in Gadstone Park who was thought to have gone on a trip to France. Up till now all the bodies have died from natural causes or by accident. But when Pitt arranges for the grave to be opened up a final body is discovered. Wilson-whose grave doesn't appear to have been dug up. Eventually the second, unclaimed body is identified as a Mr. And then another man, a well-known procurer Horry Snipe who was run over by cart, is found wearing a stovepipe hat and sitting on a gravestone in the Resurrection Row cemetery. A third corpse is then discovered and that one is Mr. Porteus's grave, but the widow Porteus declares that it's not her husband. It's thought he might be the body missing from a Mr. But no one know who this fellow is right away. The gravediggers discover another corpse resting in Fitzroy-Hammond's coffin when it comes time for them to attempt to bury his lordship a third time. Not long after a second burial, the nobleman makes a second escape from his grave-this time to take a seat in the family pew on a Sunday morning.įrom there bodies keep appearing where they didn't ought to be. But Fitzroy-Hammond hasn't made his final appearance. Graverobbing is a crime and he must discreetly try to find out what motive there could be for disinterring a lord and displaying his body on a cab. So what is his body doing sitting atop a hansom cab like some sort of other-wordly cabbie? That's what Inspector Thomas Pitt would like to know. The case of the reappearing corpses: Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond of Gadstone Park was properly buried after dying from a heart attack several weeks ago.

Resurrection Row by Anne Perry