The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Peter Lovesey
ISBN: 9781569475249
Published: October, 2008
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The second Sergeant Cribb Investigation set in the seedy underbelly of Victorian London.
Pugilism, a brutal form of bare-knuckle boxing, is forbidden by law in late Victorian England, but Sergeant Cribb discovers evidence that it continues in secret, finding a corpse whose hands were “pickled” for fighting. He sends young constabl...
The second Sergeant Cribb Investigation set in the seedy underbelly of Victorian London.
Pugilism, a brutal form of bare-knuckle boxing, is forbidden by law in late Victorian England, but Sergeant Cribb discovers evidence that it continues in secret, finding a corpse whose hands were “pickled” for fighting. He sends young constable Henry Jago to infiltrate the fighting ring, but Jago is endangered when more murders ensue.
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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.”