Peter Lovesey — The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
London , Macmillan and Co. 1971. First edition. Cloth. A thrilling Victorian crime novel, in its first edition. A first edition copy of this work. The Detective Wore Silk Drawers is a historical crime novel set in the seedy world of late Victorian England and is the second novel in Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb series. In the original clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is also generally lovely with some light marks to the wraps. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.