The Peter Lovesey Collection
  
Peter Lovesey's first novel WOBBLE TO DEATH introduced the redoubtable Victorian policemen, Cribb and Thackeray. 
He won the Gold Dagger Award with THE FALSE INSPECTOR DEW and in 2000 
joined the elite group of people awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.  


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A Case of Spirits by Peter Lovesey  
******Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray investigate in a case involving burglary 
murder and the Occult in this Victorian Detective thriller. 





Abracadaver by  Peter Lovesey 
******Sergeant Cribb pursues an elusive and vicious criminal through 
the music halls of nineteenth century London.






Bertie and the Crime of Passion 1.4 by Peter Lovesey  
Bertie and the Crime of Passion 2.4 
Bertie and the Crime of Passion 3.4 
Bertie and the Crime of Passion 4.4 
******Bertie, Prince of Wales, is in Paris en route for Cannes in the spring of 1891. 
One of the attractions of the city is the company of Sarah Bernhardt, and it is she 
who informs him that the prospective son-in-law of his old friend, Jules d'Agincourt, 
has been murdered at the Moulin Rouge. 





Bertie and the Seven Bodies  by Peter Lovesey
******Publisher's Weekly
When a killer stalks a dinner-and-gameshooting party on an English country estate, 
the corpses drop like pheasants. High-living Albert Edward (''Bertie''), Prince of Wales, 
who made his detective debut in Lovesey's Bertie and the Tinman , is the fumbling 
sleuth and rakish narrator, loosely modeled on the real-life prince who became 
King Edward VII. Bertie discovers that the nursery rhyme ''Monday's child is fair 
of face . . . '' holds the key; each line of the poem points to the next victim. Among 
the dwindling group of party guests, one of whom is the murderer, are an Amazon 
explorer, a stuttering poet and a scheming actress. Half the fun of this romp lies 
in watching Bertie invent, then discard, one theory after another; for a while his 
suspicions even fall on the widowed hostess he wants to bed. The other half comes 
from Lovesey's light mockery of Victorian manners and sexual mores in a bright, 
entertaining tale whose bantering tone conceals artful plotting. 


Bertie and the Tinman by Peter Lovesey 







The Circle by Peter Lovesey 
******Encourged by his fourteen-year-old-daughter who recognises his lonely widowhood, 
Bob Naylor decides to join a writers' circle, believing he might gain some expert help with
the poetry which keeps spilling out of his imagination. He discovers a motley collection of 
wannabe authors who he doubts he has anything in common with, but just as he is 
deciding not to formally join the group he learns that a publisher who addressed their 
last meeting has been killed and he stays to see what might develop. The Senior Investigating 
Officer, Henrietta Mallin, soon has all the members of the group under suspicion and under 
pressure from her superiors arrests their Chairman. Bob, the only writer who had not met the 
dead man, is persuaded by some other members of the group to do some investigating of his own. 
And that is when the trouble really starts, because another death turns the spotlight of suspicion on to him. 


Crimes and Misdemeanours 1.5 - The Stalker by Peter Lovesey 
Crimes and Misdemeanours 5.5 - Murdering Max by Peter Lovesey  



Keystone by Peter Lovesey 


 
Rough Cider 1.2 by Peter Lovesey 
Rough Cider 2.2
******It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, 
especially with the local girls. After a dance to celebrate the pressing of the apples into cider, 
the resentment of the local men leads to violence and a murder. Later, a child is born, a girl. 
When she grows up, she tries to find out more about her soldier-father. And long-forgotten 
jealousies and hatreds come frothing to the surface. 
                                          Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. 





Swing, Swing Together  by Peter Lovesey
******Elfrida College for the Training of Female Elementary Teachers encouraged 
the highest standards of behaviour in its young ladies. Bathing in the nude was 
a flagrant breach of the Rules. For Harriet Shaw this daring midnight dip caused 
more than a chilly frisson. She was to become an important witness in a case of 
murder. As Jane and Molly encouraged her into the water, the well-bred water-nymphs 
were surprised. By three men in a boat, and a dog, keeping watch in the prow.



The Detective Wore Silk Drawers by Peter Lovesey
******Sergeant Cribb finds himself immersed in the world of nineteenth-century pugilism, 
investigating illegal bare-knuckle boxing. Cribb sends in Constable Jago, the police 
boxing champion, undercover to the gang's secret training centre. Cribb must think 
on his feet in the final rounds of this mystery.




The False Inspector Dew 1.5 by Peter Lovesy  
The False Inspector Dew 2.5
The False Inspector Dew 3.5
The False Inspector Dew 4.5
The False Inspector Dew 5.5
******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 investigate. This may be Lovesey's most ingeniously plotted 
mystery for which he was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger.
 



Waxwork - 1 of 2 by Peter Lovesey - 
Waxwork - 2 of 2  
******"I, Miriam Jane Cromer, wife of Howard Cromer, wish voluntarily to state 
that on the afternoon of Monday, 12th March, 1888, at Park Lodge, Kew Green, 
I murdered one Josiah Perceval, photographic assistant in my husband's 
employment. I added potassium cyanide to a decanter of wine, knowing that 
he was likely to drink from it and be fatally poisoned..."

The Victorian Domestic Murder has a place of its own in folklore and literary history. 
Peter Lovesey has created a story that will stand comparison with the classic crimes of fact and fiction.



Wobble To Death by Peter Lovesey 
******Set in London in 1879, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray 
                            who must race to catch a ruthless killer. 

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