Swing, Swing Together

Notes

Swing, Swing Together by Peter Lovesey is the seventh of eight outings by his Victorian Seargent Cribb. It won him the “Grand Prix de Littérature Policière” when it was translated into French nine years after its original publication.

A delightfully cosy cruise along the Victorian river Thames, with only the occasional body in the water.

Publisher’s Synopsis

London, 1889: After Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller, rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. When an elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames and witnesses a body being dumped, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackerey are called to investigate. They uncover strange parallels with the enormously popular Victorian novel, but nobody will take them seriously. Following their instincts, they stick doggedly to the trail, which leads upstream to Oxford.

“Here’s charm and delight. A puzzle postlude to Three Men in a Boat.” — HRF Keating, The Times

“Thames-side summer scenes plus real who-and-why puzzle add up to a period piece of engaging charm.” — Francis Goff, Sunday Telegraph

Read a full review of Swing, Swing Together by Peter Lovesey at In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel.