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Waxwork

(1978)
(The eighth book in the Sergeant Cribb series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1978 CWA Gold Dagger (nominee)

"I, Miriam Jane Cromer, wife of Howard Cromer, wish voluntarily to state that on the afternoon of Monday, 12th March, 1888, at Park Lodge, Kew Green, I murdered one Josiah Perceval, photographic assistant in my husband's employment. I added potassium cyanide to a decanter of wine, knowing that he was likely to drink from it and be fatally poisoned..."

The Victorian Domestic Murder has a place of its own in folklore and literary history. Peter Lovesey has created a story that will stand comparison with the classic crimes of fact and fiction.


Genre: Mystery

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