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The Last Detective: Detective Peter Diamond Book 1
Peter Lovesey
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Description for The Last Detective: Detective Peter Diamond Book 1
Paperback. The very first Peter Diamond mystery, and Anthony Award winning novel, from the superb Peter Lovesey. Series: Peter Diamond Mystery. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 202 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
A woman's naked body is found floating in the weeds of a lake near Bath, by an elderly woman walking her Siamese cats. No-one comes forward to identify her, and no murder weapon is found, but sleuthing is Superintendent Peter Diamond's speciality. A genuine gumshoe, practising door-stopping and deduction: he is the last detective.
Struggling with office politics and a bizarre cast of suspects, Diamond strikes out on his own, even when Forensics think they have the culprit. Eventually, despite disastrous personal consequences, and amongst Bath's rambling buildings and formidable history, the last detective exposes the uncomfortable truth . ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Peter Diamond Mystery
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751553680
SKU
V9780751553680
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Detective: Detective Peter Diamond Book 1
A brilliant performance
Times Literary Supplement
A terrific job
The Times
Mr Lovesey maintains a wonderful tone throughout . . . A comedy of bad manners, full of oddball characters and wacky events develops into a perfectly realised murder mystery whose skilful misdirection never oversteps the bounds of fair play
The Wall St Journal
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Times Literary Supplement
A terrific job
The Times
Mr Lovesey maintains a wonderful tone throughout . . . A comedy of bad manners, full of oddball characters and wacky events develops into a perfectly realised murder mystery whose skilful misdirection never oversteps the bounds of fair play
The Wall St Journal
... Read more