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The eighth book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey

London, 1888. Though Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband''s assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. However, the jury sentence her to hang.

Miriam then says her husband was the killer, but he has an alibi. Can Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray discover what really happened at Park Lodge on that fateful day in March before it''s too late?



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Waxwork is quite the best novel of detection I have read for a long time - Ruth Rendell

Lovesey's backtwist plotting is pure Christie, but the style, the detail and the deadpan horror are all his own - and absolutely marvellous - Kirkus Reviews

As good a crime entertainment as you could wish for - HRF Keating, The Times

Marvellously authentic - Washington Post

Waxwork The Eighth Sergeant Cribb Mystery

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 10 December 2020
      ISBN-13 9780751581232
      978-0751581232
      ISBN-10 0751581232
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      Crime & Thrillers Books by Peter Lovesey

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The eighth book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey

      London, 1888. Though Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband''s assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. However, the jury sentence her to hang.

      Miriam then says her husband was the killer, but he has an alibi. Can Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray discover what really happened at Park Lodge on that fateful day in March before it''s too late?



      Trade Review
      Waxwork is quite the best novel of detection I have read for a long time - Ruth Rendell

      Lovesey's backtwist plotting is pure Christie, but the style, the detail and the deadpan horror are all his own - and absolutely marvellous - Kirkus Reviews

      As good a crime entertainment as you could wish for - HRF Keating, The Times

      Marvellously authentic - Washington Post

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