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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.
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Sergeant Cribb Adventure: The Detective Wore Silk Drawers, Peter Lovesey
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- Released
- 1980
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- Title
- Sergeant Cribb Adventure: The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Lovesey
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1980
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN10
- 0140055584
- ISBN13
- 9780140055580
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Detective, English Literature, Historical Mystery, Police, Victorian Era, Boxing, Wrestling Matches
- First published
- 1971
- Original title
- The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- “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.