A practical joker is haunting the popular music halls of Victorian London
- but far from being funny, his intentions are deeply sinister.
A trapeze artist misses her timing when the ropes are shortened; a comedian who invites the audience to sing along with him finds the words of his song shamefully altered; mustard has been applied to a sword swallowers blade; a singers costume has been rigged; the girl in a magicians box is trapped.
And then the mischief escalates to murder. Or was murder intended all along? The indomitable detective team of Sergeant Cribb & Constable Thackeray dive into the back rooms & dark alleyways of London as they pursue the elusive criminal.
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780751572605
• Author: Peter Lovesey
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 250
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm