Peter Lovesey — The Detective Wore Silk Drawers

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this Sergeant Cribb novel from British writer Peter Lovesey, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. A Sergeant Cribb novel. Set in the seedy world of bare-first pugilism in late Victorian England, infiltrated by a young police officer. His superior, Sergeant Cribb suspects that this remote club is a centre of the illegal sport and that the losing fighters have been disposed of by decapitation so that the corpses cannot be identified. Written by Peter Harmer Lovesey, a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories best known for his series featuring Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.