See More From Book Club Friends

Sign up and log in to post, comment and join the conversation.

Book Club Friends is 100% Canadian 🇨🇦

Peter Lovesey
Abracadaver
Book #3 of the Sergeant Cribb Investigation series
See the list of Sergeant Cribb Investigation books in order

Abracadaver

“Fine picture of period vice, good mystery plotting, and fun.” —San Francisco Chronicle

A sadistic practical joker is haunting the popular music halls of London, interfering with the actors and interrupting their acts by orchestrating humiliating disasters that take place in view of the audience. A trapeze artist misses her timing when the trapeze 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 swallower’s blade. A singer’s costume has been rigged. The girl in a magician’s box is trapped. Then the mischief escalates to murder. Or was murder intended all along? That indomitable detective team, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of Scotland Yard, must track down the elusive criminal.

Author: Peter Lovesey
Published: 1972
Page Count: 242

This page may include affiliate links.

Purchase on:

Amazon
Amazon

Book Club Discussion Questions For Abracadaver

Abracadaver
Discuss Abracadaver With Your Book Club Friends

Do you want to take a deeper dive intoAbracadaver? Chat about themes, characters, settings, plots and let’s celebrate this book for our Book of the Month discussion!

Suggest Abracadaver

More Book Club Discussions

A Better Man
A Fatal Grace
A Great Reckoning
A Rule Against Murder
A Trick of the Light
A World of Curiosities
All the Devils Are Here
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Beautiful Ugly
Bury Your Dead
Glass Houses
How the Light Gets In
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Iron Lake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Kingdom of the Blind
On Tyranny
State of Terror
Still Life
The Beautiful Mystery
The Boyfriend
The Briar Club
The Brutal Telling
The Crash
The Cruelest Month
The Frozen River
The Grey Wolf
The Housemaid
The Life We Bury
The Long Way Home
The Madness of Crowds
The Mighty Red
The Nature of the Beast
The River We Remember
The Rose Code
The Searcher
The Thursday Murder Club
Wild Dark Shore
See All Discussions

Highly Recommended Books by Peter Lovesey Book Club Friends

Lockdown
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
The Neighbor
The Bones of Paris
Death of a Macho Man
But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
Far From True
Harvest
Trial by Fire
Killing the Shadows
Echo Park
The Mysterious North
A Silent Death
The Black Book
In the Nick of Time: John Rebus vs. Roy Grace
Kissed a Sad Goodbye
Over the Edge
End in Tears
The Part-Time Job
Whispers of the Dead
Silent in the Grave
The Kingdom
Survival of the Fittest: An Alex Delaware Novel
Hunting Badger
Big Little Lies
Letters to a Soldier
Girl
Blood Shot
The Mysterious West
Triptych: A Will Trent Novel
Need You Dead
The Hyde Park Headsman
Death and Judgment
Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation
Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel
The Green Mill Murder
The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
The Best Man to Die
Smoke and Murders
The Crossing
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
The Long Call
Kissing Christmas Goodbye
An Inside Job
Portrait of a Spy
Jacket Man
Wilde Lake
Her Royal Spyness
Night Train to Memphis
Less Than a Treason
Shroud for the Archbishop
Body Double
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
A Dying Fall
Waiting for Wednesday
Moving Target
One for the Money
Alias Grace
The Ghostway
The Conditions of Unconditional Love
The Late Lord Thorpe
The Dead Ringer: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Sacred and Profane: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Betrayal of Trust
I Will Find You
One-hit Wonder
Angle of Investigation
Exit Music
The Black Widow
Half Moon Bay: A Novel
Another Thing to Fall
Stay Hidden
Still See You Everywhere
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
The White Lady
Booked for Murder
The Flower Master
A Pattern of Lies
The Body by the Sea: A Brittany Mystery
Fallen: A Novel
Neon Prey
When the Bough Breaks
The Vows of Silence
Death of a Green-Eyed Monster
Mrs de Winter
Stone Rain
The Housemaid
A Question of Betrayal
Messenger: A Walt Longmire Story
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
The Collected Short Stories and Essays
Downriver
In a Dark House
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
Long Lost
Prince of Darkness
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
Death of a Heretic
The Colors of All the Cattle
Revelation
Strip Jack
Not the Ones Dead
Dead Simple
The Laughing Buddha: Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren
The Last Devil to Die
Bones Never Lie
Flash and Bones
You Are Dead
No Second Chance
Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
Absolute Power
Murder in Williamstown
Good Bad Girl
Justice Denied
Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel
Fatal Legacy
Our Lady of Pain: An Edwardian Murder Mystery
Jupiter's Bones
For the Love of Mike
Mary's Christmas
Down the Hatch: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
The Summer Guests
The Dark Angel
Midnight and Blue
Stone Kiss
Killing Orders: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Death of a Gossip
Eye of the Needle
Blackout
Long Spoon Lane
A Death in Cornwall
The Leper's Bell
Full Blast
The Bone Bed
The Wire in the Blood
Backtrack: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
The Rising Tide
Nobody Walks
Masked Ball at Broxley Manor
Fire
Fractured: A Will Trent Novel
Past Pretense
The Return of Raffles
No Cure for Love: A Novel
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
Taking the Veil: MatchUp Collection
The Walkers of Dembley
Alchemist
13 Steps Down
In Dublin's Fair City
The Levee
Self-Defense: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Surrogate Mother
Kitchener's Gold
Winter Study
Naked Once More
Knave of Diamonds
Die for Love
Execution Dock: A William Monk Novel
Monday Mourning
The Grownup
The Rope
Full Wolf Moon
Kills Well with Others
The Key to Rebecca
A Stranger in Mayfair
Hard Time: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Freeze Frame
Murder 101
Whistleblower
Night over Water
Bleeding Hearts
The Executor: A Thriller
Copper River
The Fourth Enemy
Murder in the Dark
Original Sin
I Am the Only Running Footman
The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral
Man Found Dead in Park
Wings of Fire
The Running Grave
The Shadow Dancer
The Grove of the Caesars
The Murderer's Daughter
The Wife
The Man with a Load of Mischief
The Shadow Killer
Resurrection Men
Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer
Cop to Corpse
No Time Left
The Dollhouse
A Nun in the Closet
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
I Know Who You Are
Absolution by Murder
Hidden Depths
Bones to Ashes
Love You More
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel
Bloody Kin
A Truth to Lie For
The Confessor
A Private Cathedral
Cain His Brother: A William Monk Novel
Sleeping in the Ground: An Inspector Banks Novel
The Gate Keeper
The Prisoner
A Killing Spring
Fall of Giants
Leave the Grave Green
The Butcher's Theater
A Game of Fear: A Novel
The Teacher
The Guise of Another
Hermit's Peak
Careless in Red
The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights
The Devil's Star
The Rembrandt Affair
A Fatal Thaw
Naughty In Nice
Below Zero
A Stained White Radiance
The Ritual Bath
The Body
Bittersweet Oblivion
Serpent Gate
Fatal Pursuit
A Thief of Time
The Safe Man: A Ghost Story
A Land More Kind Than Home
Magpie Murders
Time to Depart
The Poacher's Son
Death of a Prankster
In the Moon of Red Ponies
Defend and Betray: A William Monk Novel
The Winner
Borrower of the Night: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Bleeding Heart Yard
Going Wrong
Big Sky
The Midnight Hour
The Chalice of Blood
Spirit Crossing
Out of Range
Southern Discomfort
Blood Work
Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
Winter Prey
A Divided Loyalty
Bluegate Fields
Bones: An Alex Delaware Novel
A Banquet of Consequences
The Vault
The Night She Disappeared
Gallowglass
The Cellist
Death Du Jour
Tamarack County
Killers of a Certain Age
Splinter the Silence
Mile 81
Two for Texas
The Comfort of Ghosts
Locked Rooms
Northwest Angle
The Old Contemptibles
The Game
Killing Me Softly: A Novel of Obsession
We Three Queens
Too Close to Home
Charm City
A Heart Full of Headstones
Bonfire Night
Nemesis
Dixie City Jam
Cemetery Dance
Empress of the Seven Hills
Do You Remember?
The Simple Truth
Night Moves: An Alex Delaware Novel
Dream Town
In a House of Lies
Minor in Possession
The Woman in Cabin 10
Disappeared: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
Gideon's Corpse
The Chalk Pit
No Honor Among Thieves: An Ali Reynolds Novella
Lethal White
Final Account: An Inspector Banks Novel
The Mist in the Mirror
Blood on Snow
The Last Illusion
Then She Was Gone
The Late Show