Invitation to a Dynamite Party

Invitation to a Dynamite Party

The Fifth Sergeant Cribb Mystery

by Peter Lovesey
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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.

First published
2020
Publishers
Little· Brown Book Group Limited
Language
English

Peter Lovesey

About Peter Lovesey

Peter (Harmer) Lovesey (born 1936 in Whitton, Middlesex) is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. Lovesey's novels and stories mainly fall into the category of entertaining puzzlers in the "Golden Age" tradition of mystery writing.Most of Peter Lovesey's writing has been done under his own name. However, he did write three novels under the pen name Peter Lear.Lovesey's novels and short stories have won him a number of awards, including both the Gold and Silver Daggers of the Crime Writers' Association, of which he was chairman in 1991/92. In 2000, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in crime writing.Peter Lovesey lives near Chichester. His son Phil Lovesey also writes crime novels....

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