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“Here’s another of those delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls, mishaps of a kind that would ruin a performer’s career; and then there’s murder. . . . Fine picture of period vice, good mystery plotting, and fun.”—San Francisco ChronicleA 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. The girl in a magician’s box is trapped. Then the mischief escalates to murder. Or was murder intended all along? That indomitable detective team, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of Scotland Yard, must track down the elusive criminal.Peter Lovesey is the author of twenty-five highly praised mystery novels and has been awarded the Crime Writers’ Associati

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Author

Peter Lovesey

Publisher

Dodd, Mead & Company

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333135914

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Mystery

Rating

3.53 / 5 (131 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14