Turns out he can’t even hold that job-he gets fired after finding an abandoned Japanese girl in the store after closing.

Diamond Solitaire – Fired from the police force for insubordination, Peter Diamond is reduced to working as a security guard at Harrod’s.

To unravel this one, Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors in order to save a woman unjustly accused of murder. Diamond is one of the last detectives of his kind, a gumshoe whose heroes solved crimes by question and answer, door stepping and deduction. It looks like Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has his work cut out for him. There are no marks on her and no murder weapon.

The Last Detective – A woman’s body has been found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath.

If you like the Pete Diamond books, you can look for Peter Lovesey’s other series about Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in LondonĮvery book in the Peter Diamond series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other.

He’s a little out of shape and has no interest in fancy technology-he’s only just been persuaded to get a cell phone and has no patience for computer nonsense-but none of this stops him from solving case after case. Who is the Peter Diamond series about?Ĭoming from Peter Lovesey, a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels, The Peter Diamond Mysteries is about a modern-day police detective in Bath, Somerset.Īs described on the Peguin Random House page, Peter Diamond series is a golden age-style detective, a devotee of old-fashioned gumshoeing. OL25731425W Page_number_confidence 92.44 Pages 346 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220711141027 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 191 Scandate 20220705184009 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781847444448 Tts_version 5.Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.īath Murder Mysteries. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:01:15 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40594607 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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