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Swing, Swing Together

Peter Lovesey

The seventh book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey

London 1889: After Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. When an elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames and witnesses a body being dumped Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackerey are called to investigate.

The duo uncover strange parallels with the enormously popular Victorian novel but nobody will take them seriously. Following their instincts they stick doggedly to the trail which leads upstream to Oxford.

Peter Lovesey

Born in Middlesex In 1936, Peter Lovesey was the author of 43 novels and seven collections of short stories. He is best known for his eight Victorian crime novels featuring Seargent Cribb and his flagship Peter Diamond series, which began with his Antony-award winning novel, The Last Detective, in 1991. Lovesey was the recipient of numerous awards over his lifetime, including the CWA Silver Dagger, multiple Macavity and Antony awards. He was one of a select number of writers to have been awarded both the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Special Edgar and the Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He died in 2025 at the age of 88.

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Swing, Swing Together

Peter Lovesey

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