Invitation to a Dynamite Party: The Fifth Sergeant Cribb Mystery

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The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey The year is 1884. London is being terrorised by a series of bomb blasts - even within Great Scotland Yard! Reluctantly, Sergeant Cribb attends a course in the science of infernal machines in a bid to gain expert knowledge of explosives and beat the criminals at their own game. With Constable Thackeray the prime suspect, Cribb feels bound for professional and personal reasons to track down the truth at any cost. And very soon he is abducted at gunpoint by an Irish-American hammer-thrower and finds himself an unwilling but vital member of the Dynamite Party . . .

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.

Sinister fun in splendidly atmospheric setting - Sunday Telegraph A really entertaining extravaganza - HRF Keating, The Times At once fresh, very funny and cleverly plotted. Please sir, I want some more! - San Francisco Examiner Chronicle The period detail is admirable: the narrative both witty and swift - Edmund Crispin, Sunday Times Lovesey has a special flair for re-creating Victorian England with to-the-manner-born wit. I love Lovesey - Saturday Review Tense and dramatic. The best book I have read for a long time - Birmingham Evening Mail