Author | Peter Lovesey |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Sergeant Cribb |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1970 |
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Followed by | The Detective Wore Silk Drawers |
Wobble to Death is a 1970 historical detective novel by the British writer Peter Lovesey. It was the first of a series of eight novels featuring the Victorian era policeman Sergeant Daniel Cribb, a member of the Metropolitan Police. [1] It was published in Britain by Macmillan and in America by Dodd, Mead & Co.. [2] it received positive reviews from critics. [3] The plot revolves around a walking marathon in 1879 in which several of the participants are murdered. [4]
In 1980 it was adapted as an episode in the first series of the ITV television show Cribb starring Alan Dobie and William Simons.