Waxwork [Import] [Hardcover]

Peter Lovesey (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Black Dagger Crime Reprints; Facsimile Ed edition (January 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405685794
• ISBN-13: 978-1405685795
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Perfect a Little Whodunit as it Gets, September 17, 2002

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S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waxwork (Mass Market Paperback)

Reading this book was bittersweet. The book is a wonderful little mystery, and it has the minimalist plot that we come to expect from Lovesey. The sad part was that this is the last book in the Cribb/Thackery Series. I don't know why Mr. Lovesey stopped this series with this book. It really didn't have the feel of a final book. I haven't read his Peter Diamond series yet, but will try to get to those someday, but I will surely miss these wonderful characters. This particular book is written so realistically that it seems he has been writing about a true crime. That's a wonderful feat for a mystery from the Victorian era!. I missed Thackery in this book, but Cribb was wonderful! It's always sad when you reach the end of an enjoyable series.

4.0 out of 5 stars Waxworks, May 3, 2010

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Chares G. Muhle (Anaheim, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waxwork (Mass Market Paperback)

The book was received promptly and in great shape. Excellent vendor.

Charles Muhle