Invitation To A Dynamite Party

By (author): "Peter Lovesey"
Publish Date: 1974
Invitation To A Dynamite Party
ISBN0786251336
ISBN139780786251339
AsinInvitation To A Dynamite Party
Original titleInvitation to a Dynamite Party
SeriesSergeant Cribb #5
The year is 1884 and a series of bomb blasts has caused mayhem in London. The perpetrators are Irishmen seeking independence. One of the "infernal machines" has even bombed the CID office at Scotland Yard. Worse, Constable Thackeray is suspected of conspiring with the terrorists.Reluctantly Sergeant Cribb attends a course in the science of bomb-making and infiltrates the Dynamite Party. Based on the real events in London in 1884-5, the story had its own resonance ninety years on