A Detective Peter Diamond Mystery: The Last Detective (Series #1) (Paperback)

from Eyejaybee

Peter Lovesey has been one of our most prolific writers of high-quality crime fiction. It was as long ago as the 1970s that he embarked upon his series of Victorian mystery novels featuring Sergeant Cribb and his lugubrious sidekick Constable Thackeray. These proved immensely popular and even mad...

from bohemima

Quite a good mystery from one of my favorite authors. Peter Diamond, a dinosaur of a Detective Superintendent, investigates a complex case involving a woman who was found floating dead in a local reservoir pond. Preferring the old hands-on methods of police work, he's careful and doesn't jump to ...

from fhudnell

I have read other books by Lovesey and I finally got around to reading the first book in the Peter Diamond series. Frankly, part one of the book reminded me of why I've grown tired of police procedurals because it was fairly plodding and conventional. It wasn't until part two of the book that it ...

from DeaconBernie

This is Lovesey's first use of the peter Diamond character, at least as a series of books with Diamond as the principle character. Initially, Lovesey does his best to make Diamond one of the most unlikeable and incompetent detectives one would expect to find. It isn't until Diamond quits that the...

from ParadisePorch

This was published in 1991 when computers had been in the general work force about 15 years but were not nearly as developed as today. Peter Diamond is the 'last detective' because he still insists that leg-work, and not computers, is what will solve a case. I like Peter Diamond and enjoyed seein...