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Abracadaver
Peter Lovesey
Works of: Fiction
The third book in the Sergeant Cribb series takes the Victorian detective behind the scenes of the music halls, where performers are experiencing humiliating practical jokes and sadistic disasters that culminate in murder.
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Other books by Peter Lovesey
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Showstopper
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Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories
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Diamond and the Eye
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The Finisher
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Killing with Confetti
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Beau Death
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Another One Goes Tonight
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Down Among the Dead Men
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The Stone Wife
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The Tooth Tattoo
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Cop to Corpse
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Stagestruck
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Skeleton Hill
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Murder on the Short List
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The Headhunters
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The Secret Hangman
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The Circle
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The House Sitter
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Diamond Dust
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Dead Gorgeous
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In Suspense
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The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime
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The Secret of Spandau
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The Reaper
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The Vault
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Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
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Upon a Dark Night
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Bloodhounds
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The Summons
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The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories
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Bertie and the Crime of Passion
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Diamond Solitaire
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The Last Detective
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Bertie and the Seven Bodies
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Bertie and the Tinman
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Rough Cider
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Butchers & Other Stories of Crime
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Keystone
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The False Inspector Dew
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Waxwork
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Swing, Swing Together
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A Case of Spirits
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Invitation to a Dynamite Party
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Mad Hatter’s Holiday
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The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
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Wobble to Death
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