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The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Author: Peter Lovesey
Series: Sergeant Cribb Investigation #2
Narrator: David Thorpe
Unabridged: 7 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 10/13/2020
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, International Crime & Mystery, Traditional British, Crime
Synopsis
The second Sergeant Cribb Investigation set in the seedy underbelly of VVictorian London..
Pugilism, a brutal form of bare-knuckle boxing, is forbidden by law in late Victorian England, but Sergeant Cribb discovers evidence that it continues in secret, finding a corpse whose hands were “pickled”
for fighting. He sends young constable Henry Jago to infiltrate the fighting ring, but Jago is endangered when more murders ensue.
Pugilism, a brutal form of bare-knuckle boxing, is forbidden by law in late Victorian England, but Sergeant Cribb discovers evidence that it continues in secret, finding a corpse whose hands were “pickled”
for fighting. He sends young constable Henry Jago to infiltrate the fighting ring, but Jago is endangered when more murders ensue.
