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Sergeant Cribb Adventure: The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

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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.”— Sherlock Holmes Magazine The second Sergeant Cribb mystery is set in the world of Victorian bare-fisted pugilism—an illegal sport. Constable Jago is sent, undercover, to Radstock Hall by Sergeant Cribb, who suspects that when fighters who train there lose, they are murdered.

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Sergeant Cribb Adventure: The Detective Wore Silk Drawers, Peter Lovesey

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1980
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Título
Sergeant Cribb Adventure: The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Penguin Books
Publicado en
1980
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
176
ISBN10
0140055584
ISBN13
9780140055580
Serie
Primera publicación
1971
Título original
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Calificación
3,55 de 5
Descripción
“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.”— Sherlock Holmes Magazine The second Sergeant Cribb mystery is set in the world of Victorian bare-fisted pugilism—an illegal sport. Constable Jago is sent, undercover, to Radstock Hall by Sergeant Cribb, who suspects that when fighters who train there lose, they are murdered.