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Abracadaver Paperback - 2009

by Peter Lovesey


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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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  • Title Abracadaver
  • Author Peter Lovesey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Soho Crime
  • Date 2009-06-01
  • ISBN 9781569475614 / 156947561X
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5.05 x 0.63 in (19.05 x 12.83 x 1.60 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008043072
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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“Here’s another of those delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls, mishaps of a kind that would ruin a performer’s career; and then there’s murder . . . Fine picture of period vice, good mystery plotting, and fun.”—San Francisco Chronicle

About the author

Peter Lovesey is the author of more than thirty highly praised mystery novels. He has been awarded the CWA Gold and Silver Daggers, the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, the Strand Magazine Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards, and many other honors. He lives in West Sussex, England.
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