The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

“This entertaining period mystery, set in Victorian England, is lively, lurid, amusing.” — Publishers Weekly

“These are humorous novels and the humour is character-based ... mixed with the absurdities of the English class-system... Cribb was the first of the new-wave Victorian crime-fighters and is arguably still the best.” — Sherlock Holmes Magazine

The second Sergeant Cribb mystery is set in the world of Victorian bare-fisted pugilism — an illegal sport. Constable Jago is sent, undercover, to Radstock Hall by Sergeant Cribb, who suspects that when fighters who train there lose, they are murdered.

• Author
• Peter Lovesey

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 176

• Series
• Sergeant Cribb

• Publisher
• Penguin Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-005558-0

• EAN
• 9780140055580

• Genres
• mystery, fiction, police, crime, victorian, historical

• Release date
• 1980