The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (Sergeant Cribb Series #2)
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
