A policeman adept at glove fighting is sent as an undercover agent to investigate the illegal practice of bare-fist pugilism in Victorian England

The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (A Sergeant Cribb Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

LOVESEY, PETER

Mystery

Harpercollins

Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of Scotland Yard set out to find the criminal who has victimized stage performers with sadistic practical jokes

Abracadaver (A Sergeant Cribb Mystery)

Albert Moscrop's illicit romance with a lonely married woman makes him the prime suspect in the macabre murder of a servant girl in Victorian Brighton

Mad Hatter's Holiday: A Sergent Cribb Mystery

Scotland Yard's Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray take a spirited young witness on a boating trip to find three men suspected of having murdered a tramp

Swing, Swing Together: A Sergeant Cribb Mystery

The year is 1921. A passionate affair between a romantic woman and her dentist has led to his wife's murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious Dr. Crippen. But, in a disquieting twist, when a murder occurs aboard ship the captain invites "Inspector Dew" to nvestigate. This ingeniously plotted mystery won Lovesey the CWA Gold Dagger.

FALSE INSPECTOR DEW

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Vaudevillian Warwick Easton lands a film job as a Keystone Cop and finds himself investigating a real-life roller-coaster tragedy, a mysterious corpse, and a girl's disappearance, in a mystery set in the silent-screen era of Hollywood

KEYSTONE

A mysterious American woman asks Professor Theo Sinclair for information about her father, who was hanged for murder back in 1945

ROUGH CIDER

ABRACADAVER

'You must understand that we are not dealing with petty thieves or one of your backyard murderers, Cribb. We are fighting a secret society pledged to wrench Ireland from Her Majesty's dominion by every means at its disposal.' 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...

INVITATION TO DYNAMITE PAR

WAXWORK

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