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Waxwork

Peter Lovesey

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?

Peter Lovesey

Peter 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.

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Waxwork

Peter Lovesey

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