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Peter Lovesey

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Peter Lovesey

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Peter (Harmer) Lovesey (born 1936 in Whitton, Middlesex) is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime 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. Lovesey's novels and stories mainly fall into the category of entertaining puzzlers in the "Golden Age" tradition of mystery writing.

He is also well known as a writer of non-fiction histories of track & field athletics and several of his novels have used the sport as a theme. His first-ever book in 1968 was The Kings of Distance, a study of five great runners,

Most of Peter Lovesey's writing has been done under his own name. However, he did write
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“she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That’s how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.”
Peter Lovesey, The Last Detective

“I wonder if we’re dealing with an amateur,” she said. “Who keeps a revolver in his sock drawer? This isn’t America.”
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“hunches are mostly your brain telling you what you want to hear.”
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Peter Lovesey Lizzie wrote: "A long time since I first met you and Jaks at the CWA conference in Leeds? Harrogate? Whatever, but pleased to say Hi again."

Hi Lizzie. Yes as I get older, all those CWA conferences blur a bit, but they were fun. Hope you're doing okay. Jax and I are still standing!


Lizzie Lane A long time since I first met you and Jaks at the CWA conference in Leeds? Harrogate? Whatever, but pleased to say Hi again.


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