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Swing, Swing Together

An elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames and witnesses a body being dumped. Cribb and Thackerey investigate and uncover strange parallels with the then-popular Jerome K. Jerome mystery Three Men in a Boat.

After Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller, rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. The novel begins, however, with skinny-dipping (under another name) by some student teachers. By chance one of them finds herself a witness in a case of murder. The suspects? Three men in a boat.

When Cribb and Thackeray take to the river in pursuit, nobody will take them seriously. However, they stick doggedly to the trail, which leads upstream to Oxford.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-06-081023-8
  • EAN
  • 9780060810238
  • Characters
  • Sergeant Cribb, Constable Thackeray
  • Genres
  • mystery, fiction, crime, police, historical, victorian
  • Release date
  • 1990