“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 ChronicleA 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.Peter Lovesey is the author of twenty-five highly praised mystery novels and has been awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Gold and Silver Daggers and the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, as well as many US honors. He lives in West Sussex, England.

Abracadáver, mezcla de humor negro y ejemplar ejercicio de deducción, combina con gran habilidad la ambientación de época y el retrato de los personajes con una excelente intriga.En el Londres del siglo XIX, el sargento Cribb y el agente Thackeray -asiduos protagonistas de las obras de Lovesey-, investigan las siniestras y humillantes bromas de que están siendo objeto algunos de los más famosos artistas de music hall durante sus representaciones. Sin embargo, nadie ríe la noche en que una joven muere durante su número de desaparición en un espectáculo de magia. Los policías de Scotland Yard se lanzan tras la pista del escurridizo asesino y deben poner a prueba su astucia en este duelo singular con una mente maligna.

Peter Diamond to ostatni prawdziwy detektyw. Gliniarz z niezłomnymi zasadami. Kieruje się sztuką dedukcji, nie ufa technice i komputerom. Nie wierzy w skuteczność metod nowoczesnych laboratoriów. Śledztwo prowadzi zawsze po swojemu.Jego metody zostają wystawione na próbę, kiedy w jeziorze policja znajduje nagie ciało kobiety. Patolodzy i genetycy uznają wkrótce, że mają dość dowodów, by wskazać podejrzanego. Ale Diamond nie przerywa śledztwa…

"A consummate storyteller." – Colin DexterWith another court case over and a local villain banged up for a few years, Detective Inspector Peter Diamond is keen to get his teeth into another case. So when a call comes in that a woman's body has been found in one of Bath's parks he gets himself to the scene in record time, where he is able to identify the victim as his wife and to establish the fact she's been shot. Mad with grief, Diamond eventually concedes he cannot be an unbiased member of the investigation. Keeping himself away from the team becomes all the harder when he suddenly finds himself under suspicion, and when his colleagues find no case against him but appear unwilling to follow up any of his suggestions – did Steph's previous husband have an alibi – Diamond decides that a little independent action is called for. As well as following his theory that a family of local thugs killed Steph to get at him, he is also intrigued by the fact that the wife of another policeman has gone missing. He'd served with the husband in the Met and they revisit the cases they'd worked on together. Between them they unearth many startling possibilities and some unexpected facts, but it is Diamond who ultimately avenges his beloved wife.

Following on from the book "The Last Detective", ex-CID and difficult-to-work-with Peter Diamond is sacked from his latest job as a security guard at Harrods. Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London.

A bordo del Mauretania, que zarpa de Southampton, en la primera semana de septiembre de 1921, viajan numerosos pasajeros que encarnan el lujoso y cosmopolita ambiente de los años veinte. Entre ellos, se encuentra un dentista que trata de huir de su tiránica esposa y que viaja con el nombre de un famoso detective, el inspector Dew. Sin embargo, durante la travesía se produce un crimen y el capitán decide recurrir al falso inspector para descubrir al asesino… El desafortunado dentista se verá en serios aprietos para responder a los antecedentes del dueño del nombre usurpado. El FALSO INSPECTOR DEW es una nueva muestra del talento de Lovesey para combinar sabiamente ingenio y humor con una trama muy emocionante.

LAS NUEVAS AVENTURAS DE SHERLOCK HOLMES Es un homenaje de eminentes autores de misterio -Stephen King, John Gardner, Michael Harrison y otros- realizado en el año 1987 con motivo del centenario de la primera aparición pública de Sherlock Holmes en el Beeton’s Christmas Annual de noviembre de 1887, donde se dieron a conocer los hechos y la resolución del misterio conocido como Un Estudio en Escarlata

Yes, the scarecrow, painted on the cover, is on the Short List. The line-up is Peter Lovesey’s strongest ever, for not only does it feature “Needle Match,” chosen by the Crime Writers’ Association as the best short story published in 2007, but also some of his most popular detectives — Bertie, Prince of Wales, Sergeant Cribb and Rosemary and Thyme. You will be mystified by elephants in a London side street; a hearing aid heist by a gang of geriatrics; an underworld boss in search of a harp; a short, fat man who jumped for England; a brush with Adolf Hitler; and a walk on Beachey Head, the favourite suicide spot. You’ve had the call. Step up now. Surprises are guaranteed.