A Case of Spirits (Penguin Crime Fiction) [Paperback]

Peter Lovesey (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (August 25, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140043330
• ISBN-13: 978-0140043334
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,919,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

PETER LOVESEY is the author of the Peter Diamond mysteries, well known for their use of surprise, strong characters and hard-to-crack puzzles. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2000, the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Anthony, 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 further education. Earlier series include the Sergeant Cribb mysteries seen on TV and the Bertie, Prince of Wales novels. The Diamond novels, set in Bath, England, where Peter lived for some years, feature a burly, warm-hearted, but no-nonsense police detective whose personal life becomes as engaging to the reader as the intricate mysteries he solves. His team in Bath CID includes the ex-journo Ingeborg Smith, the long-serving Keith Halliwell and the meticulous John Leaman, all involved in what is essentially a fair-play procedural mystery series. Peter and his wife Jax, who co-scripted the TV series, have a son, Phil, also a teacher and mystery writer, and a daughter Kathy, who was a Vice-President of J.P.Morgan-Chase, and now lives with her family in Greenwich, Ct. Peter currently lives in Chichester, England. His website at www.peterlovesey.com gives fuller details of his life and books. "Try him. You'll love him," wrote the doyen of the mystery world, Otto Penzler, in the New York Sun.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Satisfying Cribb and Thackery, June 27, 2002

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S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Case of Spirits (Penguin Crime Fiction) (Paperback)

I am working my way through the Cribb and Thackery series, and I am really enjoying it. I love Victorian mysteries, and this series is different enough that it's quite a treat to read. The intrepid Sergeant Cribb and his sidekick Thackery are on the tail of the spirit world in this book. The occult and things ghostly was quite popular for the "quality" in the late 1800's. They held seances, and looked for manifestations just like what happens now. But Cribb is not to be taken in by spirit meddling, and he uncovers the murder and the killer in his usual understated style. This is a good book, a cracking mystery, and a good edition to this series.