About Peter Lovesey
Peter Harmer Lovesey, also known by his pen name Peter Lear, was a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. He was also one of the world's leading track and field statisticians. His first detective novel, Wobble to Death (1970), was set within a historically accurate depiction of a 19th-century foot race. His first novel was followed by seven others in the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian England with the stories often placed in sports or entertainment events such as boxing, rowing, and music hall.
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