Waxwork
Peter Lovesey
Works of: Fiction
The eighth of the Sergeant Cribb series sets the Victorian detective his strongest challenge. Miriam Cromer has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The hangman has been booked and it seems nothing can save her. But there is a doubt over her guilt that Cribb is asked to investigate. Waxwork won the Silver Dagger and was the chosen as the pilot episode of the Granada TV series that also launched the long-running PBS series Mystery! in America in 1980.
CWA Awards
- CWA Silver Dagger – Winner
Sub-genres
Other books by Peter Lovesey
Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories
Diamond and the Eye
The Finisher
Killing with Confetti
Beau Death
Another One Goes Tonight
Down Among the Dead Men
The Stone Wife
The Tooth Tattoo
Cop to Corpse
Stagestruck
Skeleton Hill
Murder on the Short List
The Headhunters
The Secret Hangman
The Circle
The House Sitter
Diamond Dust
Dead Gorgeous
In Suspense
The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime
The Secret of Spandau
The Reaper
The Vault
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
Upon a Dark Night
Bloodhounds
The Summons
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories
Bertie and the Crime of Passion
Diamond Solitaire
The Last Detective
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Bertie and the Tinman
Rough Cider
Butchers & Other Stories of Crime
Keystone
The False Inspector Dew
Swing, Swing Together
A Case of Spirits
Invitation to a Dynamite Party
Mad Hatter’s Holiday
Abracadaver
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Wobble to Death
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