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      The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

      by Peter Lovesey
      Published
      Jan 1971
      Main Genre
      Historical Mystery Hist. Mystery
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      218
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      A Sergeant Cribb Mystery Book 2

      About This Book

      The discovery of the headless corpses of several well-muscled men floating in the Thames puts Detective Sergeant Cribb on the trail of some very nasty goings-on. Illegal bare-fisted prize-fighting to be precise -- a sport outlawed in late Victorian England but still capable of attracting audiences and money to secret arenas. Cribb decides to break the organisation behind the brutal sport and even more brutal killings by infiltrating an athletic young policeman, Constable Jago, into the shady domain of Radstock Hall, headquarters of the fight promoters. Here Jago must learn to withstand round after round of punishing bare-knuckled pugilism -- and the lascivious attentions of the beautiful but sadistic Isabel Vibart.

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      Book 2
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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Historical Mystery Police Procedural

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      First Edition Jan 1989 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780060809997 ISBN10 006080999X
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      Aug 1980 Penguin ISBN13 9780140055580 ISBN10 0140055584
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      Oct 2008 Soho Constable ISBN13 9781569475249 ISBN10 1569475245
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      Oct 2008 Soho Press ISBN13 9781569477519 ISBN10 1569477515
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      Oct 2008 Sphere (UK) ISBN13 9781405529938 ISBN10 1405529938
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      Oct 2008 Soho Constable ISBN10 B004HYHB52
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      Feb 1995 Chivers Audio Books ISBN13 9780745161129 ISBN10 074516112X
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      Jun 2000 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786224265 ISBN10 0786224266
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