PETER LOVESEY/PETER LEAR:

This is Lovesey's output, with year of publication, alternate titles (if any), Swedish titles, and the detective of the story. Nos 29-38 are uncollected short stories. Finally, the novels written by Lovesey under the pen name Peter Lear can be seen as nos. 39-41.

SC = Sergeant Cribb
PB = "Bertie" (Edward), Prince of Wales
PD = Peter Diamond


  1. WOBBLE TO DEATH 1970
    (SC)

  2. THE DETECTIVE WORE SILK DRAWERS 1971
    Polisen går i ringen
    (SC)

  3. ABRACADAVER 1972
    Abrakadaver
    (SC)

  4. MAD HATTER'S HOLIDAY 1973
    (SC)

  5. INVITATION TO A DYNAMITE PARTY 1974 (The tick of death)
    (SC)

  6. A CASE OF SPIRITS 1975
    Se i syne
    (SC)

  7. SWING SWING TOGETHER 1976
    Dödvatten
    (SC)

  8. WAXWORK 1978
    Vaxdockan
    (SC)

  9. THE FALSE INSPECTOR DEW 1982
    Den falske kommissarie Dew

  10. KEYSTONE 1983
    Keystone

  11. BUTCHERS 1985

    1. The bathroom (A bride in the bath)
      Badrummet
    2. The locked room (Behind the locked door)
    3. How Mr. Smith chased his ancestors (A man with a fortune)
    4. Butchers (The butchers)
    5. Woman and home (Taking possession)
      Hustru och hem
    6. The virgin and the bull (The Virgoan and the Taurean)
    7. Fall-out
    8. Belly dance (Keeping fit)
    9. Did you tell daddy?
    10. Arabella's answer
    11. Vandals
       Vandaler
    12. The secret lover
    13. The corder figure
    14. Private Gorman's luck
    15. The staring man
    16. Trace of spice

  12. ROUGH CIDER 1986
    Bitter skörd

  13. BERTIE AND THE TINMAN 1987
    En hästkarls ändalykt
    (PB)

  14. ON THE EDGE 1989
    På håret

  15. BERTIE AND THE SEVEN BODIES 1990
    Bertie och de sju liken
    (PB)

  16. THE LAST DETECTIVE 1991
    Den siste detektiven
    (PD)

  17. DIAMOND SOLITAIRE 1992
    (PD)

  18. BERTIE AND THE CRIME OF PASSION 1993
    (PB)

  19. THE CRIME OF MISS OYSTER BROWN 1994

    1. Curl up and dye
    2. The curious computer
    3. Friendly yachtsman, 39
    4. The Pomeranian poisoning (The Zenobia hatt prize)
    5. Where is thy sting? (The wasp)
    6. A case of butterflies
    7. Youdunnit
    8. The haunted crescent
    9. Shock visit (The valuation)
    10. The lady in the trunk
    11. Ginger's Waterloo
    12. Being of sound mind
    13. Supper with Miss Shivers (The Christmas present)
    14. The crime of Miss Oyster Brown
    15. The man who ate people
    16. You may see a strangler
    17. Pass the parcel
    18. The model con

  20. THE SUMMONS 1995
    Rosor till en död
    (PD)

  21. BLOODHOUNDS 1996
    (PD)

  22. UPON A DARK NIGHT 1997
    (PD)

  23. DO NOT EXCEED THE STATED DOSE 1998

    1. Murder in store
    2. Bertie and the fire brigade
       (PB)
    3. The Odstock curse
    4. Passion killers
    5. The case of the Easter bonnet
       Katten också!
       (PD)
    6. Never a cross word
    7. The mighty hunter
    8. The proof of the pudding
    9. The pushover
    10. Quiet please - we're rolling
    11. Wayzgoose
       (PD)
    12. Disposing of Mrs. Cronk
    13. A parrot is forever
    14. Bertie and the boat race
       (PB)
    15. Because it was there
    16. Murder by the Christmas tree*


  24. THE VAULT 1999
    (PD)

  25. THE REAPER 2000
    Liemannen

  26. THE SEDGEMOOR STRANGLER 2001

    1. The Sedgemoor strangler
    2. The perfectionist
    3. Interior, with corpse
    4. Dr. Death
    5. The four wise men
    6. Away with the fairies
    7. Showmen
    8. The word of a lady
    9. Star struck
    10. The amorous corpse
    11. The kiss of death
    12. The stalker
    13. Ape
    14. The usual table
    15. The problem of stateroom 10
    16. Murdering Max


  27. DIAMOND DUST 2002
    (PD)

  28. THE HOUSE SITTER 2003
    (PD)




  29. Photographer slain 1986

  30. Peer's grisly find 1986

  31. Brighton Line murder 1986

  32. The poisoned mince pie 1986

  33. The royal plot 1986

  34. Oracle of the dead 1988

  35. The Munich posture 1989

  36. Murder in the library 1993

  37. The Corbett correspondence 1997**

  38. One bad apple 2001




  39. GOLDENGIRL 1977

  40. SPIDER GIRL 1980

  41. THE SECRET OF SPANDAU 1986



* Printed in a separate pamphlet published with Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose.
** Written with Edward Marston.

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