Invitation to a Dynamite Party The Fifth Sergeant Cribb Mystery
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Biografisk notat
Born in Middlesex In 1936, Peter Lovesey was the author of 43 novels and seven collections of short stories. He is best known for his eight Victorian crime novels featuring Seargent Cribb and his flagship Peter Diamond series, which began with his Antony-award winning novel, The Last Detective, in 1991. Lovesey was the recipient of numerous awards over his lifetime, including the CWA Silver Dagger, multiple Macavity and Antony awards. He was one of a select number of writers to have been awarded both the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Special Edgar and the Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He died in 2025 at the age of 88.Music hall's heyday lovingly recalled as Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray cope with limelit poisoning and Victorian permissiveness . . . thoroughly entertaining - Guardian
Guardian
Sinister fun in splendidly atmospheric setting
Sunday Telegraph
It's a tangled business, both evil and intricate. Very much Grade A
John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
For a delightful, offbeat offering in the mystery field try Peter Lovesey's <i>Abracadaver</i>
San Francisco Examiner
Lovesey has a special flair for re-creating Victorian England with to-the-manner-born wit. I love Lovesey
Saturday Review
The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey
The year is 1884. London is being terrorised by a series of bomb blasts - even within Great Scotland Yard! Reluctantly, Sergeant Cribb attends a course in the science of infernal machines in a bid to gain expert knowledge of explosives and beat the criminals at their own game.
With Constable Thackeray the prime suspect, Cribb feels bound for professional and personal reasons to track down the truth at any cost. And very soon he is abducted at gunpoint by an Irish-American hammer-thrower and finds himself an unwilling but vital member of the Dynamite Party . . .