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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.
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"It's hard to go wrong with Peter Lovesey. He is so consistently good. This is a Sergeant Crib-- very Victorian, very atmospheric. "
— Deana (4 out of 5 stars)
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" A fun Victorian mystery, set in the music halls. I plan to read more of the Cribb series. "
— Pat, 11/1/2013 -
" Like all of Lovesey's Cribb and Thackeray novels, this book is pure fun. This time around, our Scotland Yard detectives are after a prankster who is targeting performers in 19th century music halls. Will they find their man? And will the pranks escalate to MURDER? "
— Adelaide, 6/9/2013 -
" It's hard to go wrong with Peter Lovesey. He is so consistently good. This is a Sergeant Crib-- very Victorian, very atmospheric. "
— Deana, 9/27/2012 -
" Entertaining Victorian police detective novel involving mysterious, career-ending injuries at popular London music halls. "
— Elizabeth, 6/9/2012 -
" Another pleasurable installment of Lovesey's Sargeant Cribb series. "
— Ben, 1/18/2012 -
" Entertaining Victorian police detective novel involving mysterious, career-ending injuries at popular London music halls. "
— Elizabeth, 4/21/2010 -
" Another pleasurable installment of Lovesey's Sargeant Cribb series. "
— Ben, 11/9/2009
About Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey (1936–2025) wrote more than thirty highly praised mystery novels, including the Peter Diamond mysteries, the Sergeant Cribb historical mysteries, and the Bertie Prince of Wales novels. His book have won the British Crime Writers’ Association Silver and Gold Dagger awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, and the Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award. In the United States, his books won an Anthony Award, a Macavity Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, among others. He was named a Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection and a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.
About David Thorpe
David Thorpe has appeared in numerous stage plays, in repertory, and on tour. Twice a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, he has been heard in many radio plays and readings. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has voiced several fantasy and science fiction books, including a number of the original Doctor Who books and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.