The detective wore silk drawers /
"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 cr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Soho Constable,
[2008]
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| Series: | Sergeant Cribb mystery.
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| Summary: | "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. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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| Item Description: | Accession #: 2020_0001 The Sports/Boxing copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781569477519 1569477515 |