A Case of Spirits: The Sixth Sergeant Cribb Mystery

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The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of Victorian London: manifestations, the occult, and 'sensitives' are in vogue. Unfortunately, those ready to believe are vunerable to fraud. When seance sites become targets for theft, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray are on the case. But then someone murders the medium, and the two find themselves rubbing shoulders with some rather eccentric suspects.

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.

Splendid plot, prepossessing good humour, unassertively satisfying prose. Warmly recommended - Edmund Crispin, Sunday Times Peter Lovesey is undeniably one of the best practitioners of the genre . . . An elegantly written book - Financial Times One of the best of this series, A Case of Spirits is lively and well-plotted - New York Times The writing is strikingly evocative of the period, and the plot is riveting - The Times Saturday Review