Sergeant Cribb Series by Peter Lovesey, Graham Roberts, David Thorpe, John Kennedy Melling

3.63 · 54 ratings
  • Wobble to Death (Sergeant Cribb #1)
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    Wobble to Death (Sergeant Cribb #1)

    Peter Lovesey, David Thorpe

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1970

    In 1879, race walking competitions, known as “wobbles,” were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second murder, introduces Sergeant Cribb, who goes on to investigate sports-related deaths in a series of eight books.

  • The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (Sergeant Cribb #2)
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    The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (Sergeant Cribb #2)

    Peter Lovesey, John Kennedy Melling

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1970

    The second Sergeant Cribb mystery is set in the world of Victorian bare-fisted pugilism—an illegal sport, but Cribb discovers evidence that it continues in secret, confirmed by a headless body in the Thames whose hands were “pickled” for fighting. A young constable called Henry Jago is chosen to infiltrate the gang and he has to submit to a rigorous programme of purging, pickling and training... more

  • Abracadaver (Sergeant Cribb #3)
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    Abracadaver (Sergeant Cribb #3)

    Peter Lovesey

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1972

    A sadistic practical joker is haunting the popular music halls of London, interfering with the actors and interrupting their acts by orchestrating humiliating disasters that take place in view of the audience. A trapeze artist misses her timing when the trapeze ropes are shortened. A comedian who invites the audience to sing along with him finds the words of his song “shamefully” altered. Mustard has been applied to a sword swallower’s blade. A singer’s costume has been rigged... more

  • Mad Hatter's Holiday (Sergeant Cribb #4)
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    Mad Hatter's Holiday (Sergeant Cribb #4)

    Peter Lovesey, Graham Roberts

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1973

    Brighton in 1882 is the setting of this novel of crime and tangled emotions. Albert Moscrop, a visitor whose holiday is dedicated to peering through a telescope at the seaside scene, marches down Queen’s Road to the beach and draws us through a sequence of disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama, played in the fashionable haunts of the nineteenth-century resort: beach, piers, promenade, swimming bath, aquarium, and Devil’s Dyke... more

  • Invitation To A Dynamite Party (Sergeant Cribb #5)
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    Invitation To A Dynamite Party (Sergeant Cribb #5)

    Peter Lovesey

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1974

    The year is 1884 and a series of bomb blasts has caused mayhem in London. The perpetrators are Irishmen seeking independence. One of the "infernal machines" has even bombed the CID office at Scotland Yard. Worse, Constable Thackeray is suspected of conspiring with the terrorists.Reluctantly Sergeant Cribb attends a course in the science of bomb-making and infiltrates the Dynamite Party. Based on the real events in London in 1884-5, the story had its own resonance ninety years on

  • A Case Of Spirits (Sergeant Cribb #6)
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    A Case Of Spirits (Sergeant Cribb #6)

    Peter Lovesey

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1975

    The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of society: manifestations, the occult, and “sensitives” are in vogue. But the séance sites seem to be targeted for burglaries. Then, while Cribb is on the case, someone murders the medium.There was a great vogue for table-turning and getting in touch with the dead in Victorian times and this lent itself to fraud, at the very least. It seemed inevitable that Cribb and Thackeray should take part in a séance at some stage... more

  • Swing, Swing Together (Sergeant Cribb #7)
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    Swing, Swing Together (Sergeant Cribb #7)

    Peter Lovesey

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1976

    An elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames and witnesses a body being dumped. Cribb and Thackerey investigate and uncover strange parallels with the then-popular Jerome K. Jerome mystery Three Men in a Boat.After Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller, rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. The novel begins, however, with skinny-dipping (under another name) by some student teachers... more

  • Waxwork (Sergeant Cribb #8)
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    Waxwork (Sergeant Cribb #8)

    Peter Lovesey

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1978

    By her own confession, Miriam Cromer is a murderess. She is sentenced to death and the hangman travels to London to earn his fee. Then the Home Office is sent a photograph that casts doubt on the confession. The matter must be investigated, and fast. Sergeant Cribb is called in and his investigations produce nothing to ease the minds of the authorities... more

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