Waxwork

Name: Waxwork
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter Lovesey
ISBN: 9781705011539

Author: Peter Lovesey

Series: Sergeant Cribb Investigation #8

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/13/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, International Crime & Mystery, Traditional British, Crime

Synopsis

The eighth Sergeant Cribb Investigation set in the seedy underbelly of Victorian London.

Though the beautiful Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband’s assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. But then she is sentenced to hang. She blames her husband, but he has an alibi. Sergeant Cribb
and Constable Thackeray must discover what really happened at Park Lodge on 12th March, 1888, and quickly.

About Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey is the author of the Peter Diamond mysteries, the Sergeant Cribb mysteries, and the Bertie, Prince of Wales novels. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger, Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Anthony, and the Ellery Queen Readers' Award, and is Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection. He has been a full-time author since 1975, and was formerly in higher education. Peter currently lives in Chichester, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean

This was one of my husband's books which I borrowed on a drizzly day and read it all as it is not a long book. However it's author is large on talent as I'm still thinking about it now several days after finishing it. In fact you don't realise just how gruesome it is when reading it but on reflectio......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor Donovan

At first,I didn't think I would like this book, by it grew on me. A beautiful woman takes the blame for a murder being told that she was too lovely to be sentenced to death. Sgt. Cribb proves her innocence but bureaucracy being what it is ...well, read and find out!!!......more

Goodreads review by Jiří

(Hodnocení se týká tří Loveseyových knih.) Snažím se to střídat a kombinovat novinky se zapomenutými věcmi v knihovně. Někdy je pak vyřadím… někdy se koukám, že ty věci mají pořád něco do sebe. U Petera Loveseye mě zarazilo hlavně to, že u nás vyšlo pouze Třikrát seržant Cribb, protože tohle mělo všec......more

Goodreads review by D J

I enjoyed the TV series as a teenager in 1981, and Jane Routley loaned me an audio book of The Detective Wore Silk Drawers in 1990, so I finally got around to reading the actual books. Well, the ebooks, anyway. This is also a damn good instruction manual for how to do a mystery. The murder investigat......more