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Invitation to a Dynamite Party: The Fifth Sergeant Cribb Mystery
Peter Lovesey
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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 . . .
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Praise for Invitation to a Dynamite Party: The Fifth Sergeant Cribb Mystery
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Sinister fun in splendidly atmospheric setting - Sunday TelegraphA really entertaining extravaganza - HRF Keating, The TimesAt once fresh, very funny and cleverly plotted. Please sir, I want some more! - San Francisco Examiner ChronicleThe period detail is admirable: the narrative both witty and swift - Edmund Crispin, Sunday TimesLovesey has a special flair for re-creating Victorian England with to-the-manner-born wit. I love Lovesey - Saturday ReviewTense and dramatic. The best book I have read for a long time - Birmingham Evening Mail
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