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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


Showstopper

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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