Abracadaver by Peter Lovesey

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abracadaver Series: #3 of Sergeant Cribb Investigation Author: Peter Lovesey Narrator: David Thorpe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: 'Fine picture of period vice, good mystery plotting, and fun.' —San Francisco ChronicleA 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.