Author: Peter Lovesey Year: 1970 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780140055580 9781569475249 0140055584 1569475245 |
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'This entertaining period mystery, set in Victorian England, is lively, lurid, amusing.''Publishers Weekly 'These are humorous novels and the humour is character-based . . . mixed with the absurdities of the English class-system. . . . Cribb was the first of the new-wave Victorian crime-fighters and is arguably still the best.''Sherlock Holmes Magazine The second Sergeant Cribb mystery is set in the world of Victorian bare-fisted pugilism'an illegal sport. Constable Jago is sent, undercover, to Radstock Hall by Sergeant Cribb, who suspects that when fighters who train there lose, they are murdered.
This book is part of the "Sergeant Cribb" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Waxwork" First published in 1978 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Case of Spirits" First published in 1975 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Tick of Death" First published in 1974 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Mad Hatter's Holiday" First published in 1973 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Abracadaver" First published in 1972 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Wobble to Death" First published in 1970 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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