num_pages: 176
description: “This entertaining period mystery, set in Victorian England, is lively, lurid, amusing.”—Publishers Weekly “These are humorous novels and the humour is character-based . . . mixed with the absurdities of the English class-system. . . . Cribb was the first of the new-wave Victorian crime-fighters and is arguably still the best.”—Sherlock Holmes Magazine The second Sergeant Cribb mystery is set in the world of Victorian bare-fisted pugilism—an illegal sport. Constable Jago is sent, undercover, to Radstock Hall by Sergeant Cribb, who suspects that when fighters who train there lose, they are murdered.
language: English
title: The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
titlecomplete: The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (Sergeant Cribb, #2)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Police, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime, Victorian
ratings_count: 380
series: Sergeant Cribb
publisher: Penguin Books