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?
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?
Reviews
Lovesey's back-twist plotting is pure Christie, but the style, the detail and the deadpan horror are all his own - and absolutely marvellous
As good a crime entertainment as you could wish for
At once charming, chilling and convincing as if it had unfolded in the Police Intelligence column of April, 1888
Marvellously authentic
One that can stand among Peter Lovesey's best
Peter Lovesey triumphs again
I couldn't put it down. I read it at a sitting - or rather, a lying, for I was in the garden at the time and got so absorbed I didn't notice the sun had burnt the skin off my back! Waxwork is quite the best novel of detection I have read for a long time
