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The Detective Wore Silk Drawers ( Sergeant Cribb #2 ) by Lovesey, Peter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Author
- Lovesey, Peter
- Publisher
- Soho Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781569475249
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (12 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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