Peter Lovesey (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
The Sergeant Cribb series, 1970-.
Principal Series Characters
Sergeant Cribb, in his forties at his first appearance, is a tall, lean man with full side-whiskers, dresses well, and relishes impersonations on the job. His keen sense of morality is tempered with irony, and his delight in the new and unusual is offset by the bitterness of seventeen years without a promotion. He is married, but his wife, Millie, appears only infrequently.
Edward Thackeray, a burly constable, is proud of his full gray beard. He is a more conventional man than...
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