Waxwork
The Eighth Sergeant Cribb Mystery
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:10th Dec '20
Should be back in stock very soon
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 ReviewsAs good a crime entertainment as you could wish for - HRF Keating, The TimesMarvellously authentic - Washington PostISBN: 9780751581232
Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 18mm
Weight: 160g
224 pages