Swing, Swing Together

Name: Swing, Swing Together
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter Lovesey
ISBN: 9781705011522

Author: Peter Lovesey

Series: Sergeant Cribb Investigation #7

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/13/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, International Crime & Mystery, Traditional British, Crime

Synopsis

The seventh Sergeant Cribb Investigation set in the seedy underbelly of Victorian London.

London, 1889: An elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames and witnesses a body being dumped. Sergeant Cribb and Constable
Thackerey investigate and uncover strange parallels with the enormously popular Victorian mystery Three Men in a Boat.

About Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey is the author of the Peter Diamond mysteries, the Sergeant Cribb mysteries, and the Bertie, Prince of Wales novels. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger, Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Anthony, and the Ellery Queen Readers' Award, and is Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection. He has been a full-time author since 1975, and was formerly in higher education. Peter currently lives in Chichester, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan

I am a Peter Lovesey fan--or a fan of his Peter Diamond books, at least. This is one of a Victorian Scotland Yard detective series Lovesey did set in England around the time of Jack the Ripper. I have done no research on this series, but there was apparently a BBC TV series based on it. This is not......more

Goodreads review by Christie

I've read a lot of Peter Lovesey's books and generally think they are fine mysteries. But this one was slow moving to me, and though fairly short could have been even shorter with a good editor. The most enjoyable thing about it was the description of boating in a punt down the Thames. All in all a......more