Mad Hatter's Holiday
Book 4 in the A Sergeant Cribb Investigation series
About Mad Hatter's Holiday
Scotland Yard’s Sergeant Cribb faces the strangest case of his career in this historical mystery set in Victorian England, hailed as “Lovesey’s best yet” (H. R. F.
Keating, The Times).“A creative, courageous and gifted writer.” —Louise PennyBrighton, 1882: Albert Moscrop spends his holiday peering at beachgoers through a telescope, piecing together disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama for his own amusement.
A keen student of human nature, Moscrop concentrates his interest on one particular family—the Protheros, especially the beautiful Zena Prothero, whose husband appears to take her for granted . . Moscrop gradually moves into the circle of the Prothero family, only to become involved in a sensational murder.