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"Fine picture of period vice, good mystery plotting, and fun.” —San Francisco Chronicle
A 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.
A 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.
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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 Abracadaver (San Francisco Examiner)
Lovesey has a special flair for re-creating Victorian England with to-the-manner-born wit. I love Lovesey (Saturday Review)
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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 Abracadaver (San Francisco Examiner)
Lovesey has a special flair for re-creating Victorian England with to-the-manner-born wit. I love Lovesey (Saturday Review)
A reissue from the delighful Sergeant Cribb series, set in Victorian London
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- PublisherSoho Crime
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 156947561X
- ISBN 13 9781569475614
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