Music hall's heyday lovingly recalled as Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray cope with limelit poisoning and Victorian permissiveness . . . thoroughly entertaining - Guardian

Guardian

Sinister fun in splendidly atmospheric setting

Sunday Telegraph

It's a tangled business, both evil and intricate. Very much Grade A

John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Se alle

For a delightful, offbeat offering in the mystery field try Peter Lovesey's <i>Abracadaver</i>

San Francisco Examiner

Lovesey has a special flair for re-creating Victorian England with to-the-manner-born wit. I love Lovesey

Saturday Review

The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey

The year is 1884. London is being terrorised by a series of bomb blasts - even within Great Scotland Yard! Reluctantly, Sergeant Cribb attends a course in the science of infernal machines in a bid to gain expert knowledge of explosives and beat the criminals at their own game.

With Constable Thackeray the prime suspect, Cribb feels bound for professional and personal reasons to track down the truth at any cost. And very soon he is abducted at gunpoint by an Irish-American hammer-thrower and finds himself an unwilling but vital member of the Dynamite Party . . .

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A classic from the delightful Sergeant Cribb series, set in Victorian London and with an explosive plot
Sinister fun in splendidly atmospheric setting - Sunday Telegraph

A really entertaining extravaganza - HRF Keating, The Times

At once fresh, very funny and cleverly plotted. Please sir, I want some more! - San Francisco Examiner Chronicle

The period detail is admirable: the narrative both witty and swift - Edmund Crispin, Sunday Times

Lovesey has a special flair for re-creating Victorian England with to-the-manner-born wit. I love Lovesey - Saturday Review

Tense and dramatic. The best book I have read for a long time - Birmingham Evening Mail
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780751581119
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Sphere
Vekt
160 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books set in Bath, his home for almost twenty years. Now living in Shrewsbury with his wife Jax, whom he met at Reading University, he continues to reach and entertain new readers across the world.