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Waxwork

The Eighth Sergeant Cribb Mystery

Peter Lovesey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:10th Dec '20

Should be back in stock very soon

Waxwork cover

The eighth book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey

London, 1888. Though Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband's assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. However, the jury sentence her to hang.

Miriam then says her husband was the killer, but he has an alibi. Can Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray discover what really happened at Park Lodge on that fateful day in March before it's too late?

Waxwork is quite the best novel of detection I have read for a long time - Ruth Rendell

Lovesey's backtwist plotting is pure Christie, but the style, the detail and the deadpan horror are all his own - and absolutely marvellous - Kirkus Reviews

As good a crime entertainment as you could wish for - HRF Keating, The Times

Marvellously authentic - Washington Post

ISBN: 9780751581232

Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 18mm

Weight: 160g

224 pages