A Case of Spirits: The Sixth Sergeant Cribb Mystery
By (Author) Peter Lovesey
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
30th March 2021
5th November 2020
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical crime and mysteries
Crime and mystery: police procedural
Thriller / suspense fiction
823.914
Paperback
240
Width 126mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm
169g
The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey
The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of Victorian London: manifestations, the occult, and 'sensitives' are in vogue. Unfortunately, those ready to believe are vunerable to fraud. When seance sites become targets for theft, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray are on the case. But then someone murders the medium, and the two find themselves rubbing shoulders with some rather eccentric suspects.Splendid plot, prepossessing good humour, unassertively satisfying prose. Warmly recommended - Edmund Crispin, Sunday Times
Peter Lovesey is undeniably one of the best practitioners of the genre . . . An elegantly written book - Financial TimesOne of the best of this series, A Case of Spirits is lively and well-plotted - New York TimesThe writing is strikingly evocative of the period, and the plot is riveting - The Times Saturday ReviewPeter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books set in Bath, his home for almost twenty years.
Now living in Shrewsbury with his wife Jax, whom he met at Reading University, he continues to reach and entertain new readers across the world.