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Overview: 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. Most of Peter Lovesey’s writing has been done under his own name. However, he did write three novels under the pen name Peter Lear. Lovesey’s novels and short stories have won him a number of awards, including both the Gold and Silver Daggers of the Crime Writers’ Association, of which he was chairman in 1991/92. In 2000, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in crime writing.
Genre: Fiction | Mystery/Thriller
The Secret of Spandau (first published under alias: Peter Lear)
Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world. Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to keep him there so long? He was a Nazi — but one with a damaging tale to tell. If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe may be undermined by what Hess can reveal; and so both the KGB and MI5 move into action to protect the extraordinary secret of Spandau.
Goldengirl (first published under alias: Peter Lear)
At six foot two, blonde hair, blue eyes, she was a marketing man’s dream. Jack Dryden was that man. Employed by a consortium of investors and the mysterious Dr Serafin to maximise their return on investment in this natural athlete, he plans to make them at least twenty million when Goldine Serafin emerges from the secrecy of her training camp to win three gold medals at the Moscow Olympics. At first sight his job seems too good to be true, but the more he finds out, the more worried he becomes – about the cruel and unusual training methods employed, about Goldine, and about a history that goes back to the Nazi Germany of the 1930s, and preparations for the 1936 Olympic Games. Just what kind of experiment is Dr Serafin conducting, should Dryden intervene… or can he?
Spider Girl (first published under alias: Peter Lear)
It’s the early 1980s and 23-year-old Sarah Jordan, a PhD student at an American university, is studying spiders… Sarah finds her studies so absorbing, that much of campus life seems to pass her by. She barely registers her research assistant’s interest in her, even though Don is the college Lothario and pursued by many female students. Even Sarah’s relationships with family and friends are perfunctory and distant, but that, it seems, is how she prefers to live. When Sarah is filmed for a TV documentary about spiders, she meets a psychologist involved in the show, and the pair strike up a friendship. As they spend more and more time together, Sarah realises that she wants more than friendship from Dr Cunningham and he gradually discovers just why Sarah is the way she is.
Meanwhile, dubbed ‘Spider Girl’ by the media for her involvement in a ground-breaking show about those arachnids, Sarah is drawn further and further into the world of show business. Yet as Spider Girl becomes more and more famous, she can’t help feeling that Sarah is slowly fading away. For Sarah, Spider Girl is a refuge and a way to feel better about herself. But what are the implications of Spider Girl for the people around her? When a man is found dead in the college gymnasium, people begin to wonder… For Don, what begins as a mission to love and save Sarah turns into a living nightmare.
Will he be able to save Spider Girl from herself? And if he does not, where will she strike next?
The Reaper
Otis Joy is a very good vicar – he’s attracted record-breaking congregations, his parishioners admire and respect him, and the village of Foxford is very content with its lot. What the citizens of Foxford don’t realise is that their beloved parish priest is a murderer. Joy had managed to convince his treasurer to channel a proportion of church funds into his own bank account, and when his bishop queries this arrangement Joy kills him – after all, such a trifling misdemeanour should not prevent him from carrying out his duties. However, it isn’t the first time he’s despatched ‘busy-bodies’ and rumours are beginning to circulate, so that when the husband of his new treasurer is found dead it looks as though he’s taken one life too many.
The False Inspector Dew
The year is 1921. A passionate affair between a romantic woman and her dentist has led to his wife’s murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious Dr. Crippen. But, in a disquieting twist, when a murder occurs aboard ship the captain invites "Inspector Dew" to investigate. This may be Lovesey’s most ingeniously plotted mystery for which he was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger.
Rough Cider
It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance to celebrate the pressing of the apples into cider, the resentment of the local men leads to violence and a murder. Later, a child is born, a girl. When she grows up, she tries to find out more about her soldier-father. And long-forgotten jealousies and hatreds come frothing to the surface. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award.
On the Edge (AKA Dead Gorgeous)
“[A] vivid postwar environment that confers plausibility, ingenious plot twists that heighten the suspense and two stunning character studies that confound our facile presumptions about women who kill.” —The New York Times Book Review
Rose and Antonia were WAAF plotters during World War II, enjoying independence, a fulfilling and challenging job, and all the fun of being two women on an RAF base. But peacetime is a disappointment. Rose’s war-hero husband has become violent, and Antonia, bored with her rich manufacturer husband, wants to move to America with her lover. A chance encounter in the street leads to a ruthless scheme, and if Rose doesn’t lose her nerve, they could get away with murder.
Reader, I Buried Them & Other Stories
A twisty collection of short stories from the master of classic crime fiction, Peter Lovesey, one of which stars his most popular creation, Peter Diamond.
More than fifty years ago, Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caught the eye of the great Ruth Rendell, whose praise ignited Lovesey’s life-long passion for short form crime fiction.
More than a hundred stories later, Peter Lovesey has assembled this devilishly clever collection, fifteen yarns of mystery, melancholy, and mischief, inhabiting such deadly settings as a theatre, a monastery, and the book publishing industry. The collection includes that first story that launched his story-writing career as well as three new stories exclusive to this volume. In addition, Lovesey fans will delight in a personal essay by the author about the historical inspirations for his creation – and in an appearance by the irascible Bath detective Peter Diamond, who has, in the author’s words, ‘bulldozed his way’ into this collection.
- Foreword by the Author
And the Band Played On
Sweet and Low
Lady Luck
Reader, I Buried Them
Angela’s Alterations
The Bitter Truth
Ghosted
The Homicidal Hat
Oracle of the Dead
Formidophobia
The Deadliest Tale of All
Gaslighting
A Three Pie Problem
Remaindered
Agony Column
The Bathroom
The Tale of Three Tubs
A Monologue for Mystery Lovers
—A Peter Lovesey Checklist
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