Swing, Swing Together

By Peter Lovesey

“Here’s charm and delight. A puzzle postlude to Three Men in a Boat.” —The Times

London, 1889: After Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller, rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. When an elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames and witnesses a body being dumped, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackerey are called to investigate. They uncover strange parallels with the enormously popular Victorian novel, but nobody will take them seriously. Following their instincts, they stick doggedly to the trail, which leads upstream to Oxford.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jun 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781569479049

Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey is a British writer of detective fiction. His work has won many awards, most notably the CWA Gold and Silver Daggers, the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, as well as the Macavity, Barry and Anthony Awards.

Reviews for Swing, Swing Together

[antiquary_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A young woman goes what we would now call skinny dipping and sees tree men in a boat. It turns out they may have been involved in the murder of a tramp. Sgt. Cribb, Constable Thackery and the potential witness set off down the river in their own boat, hoping to find the villains. The book derives from the Victorian comic classic Three Men in a Boat, which I have not read. Apparently it set off a fad of people traveling around in boats.