Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey

Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey

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Summary

Peter Diamond is back at Bath CID but doesn't believe his expertise is needed to solve the theft of a rare stamp from the local museum. But when a dead body turns up hours after the stamp, Diamond realizes the victim was a reader of mystery fiction - of the "locked-room" variety.

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Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey

The Bloodhounds of Bath is a society that meets in a crypt to discuss crime novels. To their latest recruit they are simply a gaggle of dotty misfits, until one of them reveals that he is in possession of one of the world's most valuable stamps, recently stonlen from the Postal Museum. Then theft is overtaken by murder when the corpse of one of the Bloodhounds is found in a locked houseboat, with the only key in the possession of a man with a perfect alibi. Burly detective Peter Diamond, head of the murder squad in Bath, finds himself embroiled in a mystery that in more than one sense evokes the classic crime puzzles of John Dickson Carr.
No-one has done this kind of thing better since Dorothy LSayers ... A must for crime buffs. MAIL ON SUNDAY Lovesey's writing is lucid and succinct, and he is a consumate story-teller. Colin Dexter Pure joy. SCOTSMAN Phone-off-the-hook time. INDEPENDENT
Peter Lovesey's first novel 'Wobble to Death' introduced the redoubtable Victorian policemen, Cribb and Thackeray. He has won the Gold Dagger Award with 'The False Inspector Dew' and in 2000 joined the elite group awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.
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ISBN 13 9780751518511
ISBN 10 0751518514
Title Bloodhounds
Author Peter Lovesey
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1997-03-06
Number of pages 352
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.